Rebt counselors believe that clients can be helped

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REBT counselors believe that clients can be helped through a variety of techniques
despite the clients imperfect nature
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CT- the quality of a therapeutic relationship is essential to successful cognitive therapy (Corey,
2009)
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CT counselors employ Rogers Core Conditions along with technical competence
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cognitive therapists strive to empower clients to be their own therapist.
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All CBT models employ a relationship where the client and counselor both have active
roles (Corey, 2009)
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therapist is confrontational with the client in pointing out their irrational beliefs (Corey, 2009)
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counselors should point out how the client continues with their irrational behavior maintaining
the emotional disturbances (Corey, 2009)
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therapists must help the client change their thinking and minimize the irrational ideas (Corey,
2009)
Counseling goals:
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basic goal of CBT is to modify inaccurate or faulty thinking (Corey, 2009)
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change the way clients think by using their automatic thoughts to reach the core schemata and
begin to introduce the idea of restructuring (Corey, 2009)
Key Concepts:
REBT-
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developed by Albert Ellis, REBT was one of the first Cognitive Behavioral therapies, and
continues to be a major CBT approach (Corey, 2009)
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REBT's basic premise is that people's interpretations of events and situations contribute to their
psychological problems (Corey, 2009)
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Based on the belief that cognitions, emotions and behaviors significantly interact with one
another (Corey, 2009)
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highly didactic, very directive, and concerned as much with thinking as with feeling (Corey,
2009)

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emotions stem mainly from our beliefs, evaluations, interpretations, and reactions to life
situations (Corey, 2009)
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influenced by the Ancient Greeks, Stoic philosopher Epictetus, and the work of Alfred
Adler (Corey, 2009)
A-B-C Framework
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Central to REBT theory and practice (Corey, 2009)
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A = activating (antecedent) event, B = belief, C = emotional and behavioral
consequence (Corey, 2009)
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A leads to B which leads to C (Corey, 2009)
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interventions are D=disputing intervention, which lead to E= effective philosophy (Corey,
2009)
Beck’s Cognitive Therapy
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insight-focused therapy (Corey, 2009)
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developed around the same time as REBT, but developed independently from it (Corey, 2009)
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based on the theoretical premise that people's feelings and behaviors are shaped by how they
perceive their experience (Corey, 2009)
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psychological problems come from faulty thinking, incorrect information, or incorrect
inferences (Corey, 2009)
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Beck identified a series of cognitive distortions that cause negative thinking patterns: arbitrary
inferences, selective abstraction, overgeneralization, magnification and minimization,
personalization, labeling and mislabeling, and dichotomous thinking (Corey, 2009)
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operates on the premise that the most effective way to alter dysfunctional emotions and
behavior is to change inaccurate and dysfunctional thinking (Corey, 2009)
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focuses on present problems (Corey, 2009)
Meichenbaum’s behavior modification
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CBM focuses on changing client's self-verbalizations