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18 Cards in this Set
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Therapy is seen as a __________ process
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educational
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Believe people are born with a potential for both
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rational and irrational thinking
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Believe we have the biological and cultural tendency to think
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crookedly and to needlessly disturb ourselves
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Believe that we learn and invent __________ __________ and keep ourselves disturbed through our _________
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disturbing beliefs, self-talk
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Believe we have the capacity to change
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our cognitive, emotive, and behavioral processes
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According to Albert Ellis, we are both
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inherently rational and irrational, sensible and crazy
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The only person who can make you happy or unhappy is
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you
life is often unfair and unfortunate things do happen |
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Everyone occasionally uses irrational beliefs, but we differ in
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the frequency with which we use them
our willingness to challenge them |
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Ellis's view of the therapist's role:
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to change thought patterns
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Ellis's view of the therapist's role:
Directive |
openly acknowledge their expertise. provide a fair amount of direction
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Ellis's view of the therapist's role:
Empathy |
must understand, but not accept beliefs
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Ellis's view of the therapist's role:
Style |
Often very verbal (and very nonverbal) and challenging even in the first sessions
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Ellis's view of the therapist's role:
Focus |
thoughts, not events in present or past
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How are these goals met in therapy?
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1. Educate about this philosophy:
give them meta-awareness about how we think, come to approach the world 2. Heighten awareness of the consequence of their beliefs: "On a scale from 1 to 100..." 3. Identify underlying themes and thought errors ABC(DE)F analysis activating event beliefs consequences dispute the irrational beliefs effects of rational thinking (enjoy) new feeling |
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Assumes that ______, _______, and ________, have a reciprocal cause-and-effect relationship
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cognitions, emotions, and behaviors
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Highly didactic, very directive, and concerned as much with _______ as with ________
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thinking, feeling
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Teaches that our __________ stem mainly from our beliefs, evaluations, interpretations, and reactions to life situations
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emotions
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Irrational ideas lead to
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self-defeating behavior
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" |
