Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) was found in January 1955 as heavily cognitive and philosophic. People disturb themselves with disordered thoughts, feelings and actions that interact with each other and with the difficulties. REBT designed a number of thinking, feeling and action techniques to help the clients change their self-defeating. According to REBT, all humans consciously and unconsciously train themselves with the help of a therapist if they work hard to change their thinking, feeling and behaving.
Ellis started to teach the clients that they have a choice experiencing healthy negative emotions about the trouble such as feelings of disappointment and frustration or they can choose to experience unhealthy negative reactions such as panic and depression. By using REBT, when the clients faced with difficulties with self-helping attitudes, they made themselves feel better and more productive.
Dysfunctional feelings and behaviors are like that I absolutely must well and be approved by others or I am an inadequate person, my life is horrible, I cannot stand it and world is a rotten place. To help clients to cope with these kind of disordered beliefs, REBT teach them some cognitive methods such as active disputing of clients’ irrational beliefs by both therapist and the client, cognitive homeworks to practice the disputing of dysfunctional beliefs, psycho-educational materials such as books and audiovisual cassettes, practice in resisting overgeneralized, black and white thinking. REBT uses many emotive-experiental techniques include that forceful disputing of clients’ irrational beliefs, experiencing close relationship with a therapist or therapy group, accepting the others with their mistakes and failings, role-playing difficult emotional situations and practicing how to cope with them. O Other important method of REBT is that activity-oriented behavioral method such as exposure or desensitization of dysfunctional phobias, taking risks of failing at important projects, skill training to overcome inadequacies in communication or public speaking. These are some of the cognitive, emotive and behavioral techniques that are used frequently in rational emotive behavior therapy.
When Ellis found it in 1955, REBT was unique but it was followed by similar forms of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). REBT and CBT were supported by numerous published studies that showed their effectiveness and will continue to do so in the future.
Referans:
Ellis, A. Behavior Psychotherapy: Rational and Motive. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 1072-1076.
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