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Rational Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
REBT versus CBT
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Influence of Aaron Beck (Univ of Penn)
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Psychiatrist (psychologist daughter of Judith Beck)
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Began studying cognitions in Depression
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Schemas
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Frederic Bartlett in the 1930s
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Close to Karen Horney's "neurotic expectations"
Beck's Typical cognitive Distortions (examples)
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Arbitrary influence (boss wants to fire me)
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Selective abstraction (my whole painting)
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Overgeneralization (I forget everything)
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Magnification (I am complete failure)
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Personification (The world revolves around me)
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Absolutic
(world ends if UNC doesn't win)
Albert Ellis (1913-2007)
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Began with studies of human sexuality
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Sex Without Guilt in 1958- book
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Ph.D. from Columbia Teachers College in mid-1940s (just like Carl Rogers)
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Training in psychoanalysis at Karen Horney Institute (important impact)
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Very Iconoclastic and high on Openness)
Ellis Irrational Beliefs Model (ABC)
A- Event
B- Automatic thoughts-
C- Emotion
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- Spring '08
- Loeb
- Psychology, Cognitive Therapy, Psychotherapy, Rational emotive behavior therapy, Albert Ellis
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