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Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT ) . MEBO RESEARCH Presentation. Commonalities between all Cognitive Behavior Approaches. Collaborative relationship between therapist & client Premise psychological distress is largely a function of disturbance in cognitive processes

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  1. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) MEBO RESEARCHPresentation

  2. Commonalities between all Cognitive Behavior Approaches • Collaborative relationship between therapist & client • Premise psychological distress is largely a function of disturbance in cognitive processes • Focus on changing cognitions behaviors to produce desired changes

  3. Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) • Stresses thinking, judging, deciding, analyzing, and doing • Teaches that our emotions stem mainly from our beliefs, evaluations, interpretations, and reactions to life situations Albert Ellis

  4. Assumptions of REBT • People contribute to their own psychological problems & symptoms by way they interpret events & situations • Reorganization of one’s self-statements will result in reorganization of one’s behaviors • Operant conditioning, modeling & behavioral rehearsal applied to thinking & internal dialogue

  5. View of Human Nature • We are born with a potential for both rational and irrational thinking • We have the biological and cultural tendency for self-preservation and self-destruction • Humans are self-talking, self-evaluating & self-sustaining • We develop emotional & behavioral problems when we mistake simple preferences (love, approval, success) for dire needs • We learn and invent disturbing beliefs and keep ourselves disturbed through our self-talk • We have the capacity to change our cognitive, emotive, and behavioral processes

  6. Emotional Disturbance • We actively reinforce self-defeating beliefs by the processes of autosuggestion and self-repetition. • Blame is the core of emotional disturbance-so to recover stop blaming self & others • To recover from neurosis (personality disorder) we need to stop blaming ourselves and others • We escalate desires & preferences into dogmatic & absolutist “shoulds, musts, oughts, demands, commands-which are irrational beliefs which need to be changed

  7. Irrational Beliefs • Irrational ideas lead to self-defeating behavior • Some examples: • “I must have love or approval from all the significant people in my life.” • “I must perform important tasks competently and perfectly.” • “If I don’t get what I want, it’s terrible, and I can’t stand it.”

  8. Disputing Intervention • Challenges irrational beliefs • Use principles of logic to destroy unrealistic, unverifiable hypotheses • Detect - detect the “shoulds”, “I musts” “awfulizing” “self-downing” • Debate - learn to logically & empirically question beliefs-to argue self out of them • Discriminate - irrational-self-defeating from rational-self-helping beliefs

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