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REBT Deeper than CT and CBT
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"Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before every action."--Ecclesiasticus 38:33
REBT, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, is a deeper form of psychotherapy than is either of its main look-alikes: CT, Cognitive Therapy, and CBT, Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
REBT is deeper for 5 primary philosophical reasons:
1) REBT works with underlying identity issues by continually teaching USA, unconditional self-acceptance.
2) REBT works with underlying relationship issues by continually teaching UOA, unconditional other-acceptance.
3) REBT works with underlying existential issues by continually teaching ULA, unconditional life-acceptance.
4) REBT has a theory of human motivation that accounts for the existence of human problems. See the article "The Biological Basis of Human Irrationality" in the Journal Individual Psychology, vol. 32, pp. 145-168, 1976. Reprints are available from the Albert Ellis Institute: www.rebt.org.
5) REBT works to recognize and remove the models common to all self-disturbing and self-defeating thinking by emphasizing the nature of thinking over the content of thinking.
REBT is deeper for practice reasons.
It is important to emphasize one of the major differences between REBT and both CT and CBT. This difference is that while CT and CBT dispute the B about the A trying to lessen the emotional upset by lessening the distorted view of the event A. REBT, as Albert Ellis often puts it, more elegantly disputes the B about the A trying to lessen the emotional upset by lessening the inflexible and extreme negative nature of B. In fact, REBT at first may NOT only accept the distorted view of A, REBT often actually exaggerates the distortion to absurdity to teach the point that even if A is a real pain that B does NOT have to be an additional pain source. Or, as I tell my client's, "Why double your trouble? Isn't it already bad enough that you have a painful A--why give yourself a painful B to go along with it?!" Once that is accomplished, then REBT will also concern itself with distortions of A at B and even problem-solving A.
This is an important point that is even lost on some of the trainers from the NYC Institute. REBT works more on the nature of B rather than on the mere content of B as does CT. This leads to greater generalization of therapeutic gains including insight, awareness, feeling, and behavioral change. For instance, if, as in CT, you focus on the content of the B rather than on the nature of the B, then you must approach each B individually and you learn only to dispute similar Bs from disputing one particular B. However, if, as in REBT, you focus on the nature of the B, then you can approach any B with the same fundamental tests for rationality, for helpfulness, for logic, for reality. Tests such as flexibility, extremeness, and demandingness can be applied generally. While such tests also are developed in CT, they are developed less efficiently, effectively, and forcefully because they are side effects rather than goals when challenging Bs.
This is a deeper approach as it teaches clients to first stop disturbing themselves rather than to first try to get the world to stop disturbing them. Naturally, once clients are less disturbed, they are then better able to realistically and practically work at making their world a more friendly place.
REBT is also deeper for other theoretical reasons.
REBT recognizes that some emotions are helpful and some are hurtful. For instance, REBT sees extreme negative emotions such as depression and anxiety as hurtful, but REBT also sees mild to moderate negative emotions such as regret or concern as helpful. Other counseling theories often make the foolish and unrealistic claim that all emotions are okay when everyone knows that some emotions lead to violence and some to peace.
REBT's ABCs of Emotions
Cognitive Psychotherapy Quotations
Albert Ellis: "New Yorker" Article
For more information on REBT--
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"The character of a person is determined by how they respond internally regardless of external forces."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."--Leo Tolstoy
"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things."--Eleanor Roosevelt
Cognitive Psychotherapy Quotations
QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"A fool is only a fool because he won't see he is a fool."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."--James Joyce
"Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 206
"When receiving correction, the wise seeks to learn and the fool seeks to justify with excuses."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:"--Proverbs 3:11
"Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die."--Proverbs 15:5
"For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth."--Hebrews 12:6
"If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?"--Hebrews 12:7
"But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons."--Hebrews 12:8
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."--Norman Vincent Peale
"By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 194. Order A Guide to Rational Living
"If we eliminated all errors, we would also eliminate much discovery, art, insight, learning, and creativity that results from facing errors."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to."--Annie Gottlier
"REBT exists to help when you think it is so horrible it hurts."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
QUOTATIONS SCRIPTURE
"A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:"--Proverbs 1:5
"Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety."--Proverbs 11:14
"The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise."--Proverbs 12:15
"Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy."--Proverbs 12:20
"Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established."--Proverbs 15:22
"Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end."--Proverbs 19:20
"Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war."--Proverbs 20:18
"Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth."--Isaiah 16:3
"Extol not thyself in the counsel of thine own heart; that thy soul be not torn in pieces as a bull [straying alone.]"--Ecclesiasticus 6:2
"As timber girt and bound together in a building cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised counsel shall fear at no time."--Ecclesiasticus 22:16
"Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel."--Ecclesiasticus 30:21
"A man of counsel will be considerate; but a strange and proud man is not daunted with fear, even when of himself he hath done without counsel."--Ecclesiasticus 32:18
"And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it."--Ecclesiasticus 37:13
"Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before every action."--Ecclesiasticus 38:33
"Gold and silver make the foot stand sure: but counsel is esteemed above them both."--Ecclesiasticus 40:25
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