Cognitive Therapy课件.ppt

Cognitive Therapy Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Albert Ellis Cognitive Therapy Aaron Beck 精品文档 Situation/ Event Cognitive Processing Response: Behavioral Emotional Cognitive 精品文档 Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy 精品文档 Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Originally known as Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). Changed its name when its founder, Albert Ellis, decided it needed to be more reflective of focusing on behavior as well as cognitions. Ellis, a Columbia trained clinical psychologist, formulated this treatment after deciding that psychoanalysis was inefficient. 精品文档 View of Human Nature/Personality Assumes that people are both rational and irrational, sensible and crazy. This duality is biological and is perpetuated unless a new way of thinking is learned. 精品文档 View of Human Nature Although Ellis does not deal with developmental stages, he does think that children are more vulnerable to outside influences and irrational thinking than adults. Believes that human beings are gullible and highly suggestible and are easily disturbed. People have within themselves the ability to control thoughts, feelings and behavior; but they must first become aware of their self-talk. 精品文档 Irrational Beliefs and Emotional Disturbance Ellis places irrational beliefs into three categories correlated with emotional disturbance. “I absolutely must perform important tasks well and be approved by significant others or else I am an inadequate, pretty worthless person” RESULT: Severe feelings of anxiety, depression, and demoralization often leading to severe inhibition. 精品文档 Irrational Beliefs and Emotional Disturbance “Other people, especially my friends and relatives, truly must treat me kindly and fairly, or else they are rotten, damnable people” RESULT: Severe feelings of anger, rage, fury, often leading to fights, child abuse, assault, rape, murder and genocide. 精品文档 Irrational Beliefs and Emotional Disturbance “The condition under which I live absolutely m