Rational emotive behavior therapy

an exceptional mind. He showed an interest in human behavior in his work like in the play Hamlet. Shakespeare wrote, “There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” (Shakespeare). He meant that nothing is good or bad, but people are the ones that give meaning to what happens to them based on how they think about a positive or negative event in their lives. The popular and effective therapeutic approach known as cognitive behavior therapy is based on this idea. Cognitive factors play a…

therapist may assess which beliefs and behaviors create difficulties or problems for the client. They may do this by listening for themes and identifying activating events, irrational beliefs, and emotional behavioral consequences. REBT therapist occasionally utilize a REBT Self-Help Report Form. 4. Definitions and conditions for mental health: An individual is mentally healthy when they have several rational beliefs and few to no self-defeating beliefs. Rational beliefs lead to goal attainment…

SMART Goals The culture shock that many Latino students experience entering a four-year institution disrupts their governing values as so and so states, many have felt a collision between their responsibilities to their academics and those to their families (00). In a similar train of thought, so and so states that the long-range goals that Latino students envision, begin to be question (00). Latino students begin to start to weight out their times between providing financially to their families…

behavioral therapy standpoint people are seen as neither good or bad but rather a product of their environment, (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). According to behaviorists, behavior is learned through the surrounding environment and those learned behaviors are repeated when an incentive follows the action. Behaviorists generalize information about humans from observing animals, although they acknowledge that humans are much more complex (Henderson & Thompson, 2011). The basis for behavioral therapy…

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Albert Ellis is considered as the founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. He discovered that our positive or negative beliefs influence our emotional functioning in the brain. He said that our negative beliefs lead us to anxiety, depression, aggression and people often think of self harming behaviors. He also said that by not taking into account the fact that cognition affects our emotional thinking, other theories failed to explain that why people…

two fields. I assumed the main difference between counseling and clinical psychology was clinical psychology focuses more on diagnosing and treating patients with mental illness and disorders. While counseling psychology concentrates primarily on therapy and counseling individuals. Although this is correct to some extent, I have become more knowledgeable on…

Behavior therapists use a broad spectrum of treatment. Typical therapy involves methods such as operant conditioning techniques, exposure therapy, and behavioral activation therapy. All of these treatments aim to change overt behavior or to alter negative cognitions as a result of changes in behavior. Most behavioral therapies tend to produce positive short-term results, but are not as effective in the long-term after treatment is completed. This influenced behavior therapists to introduce…

The process of integrative group therapy comes from the recognition that no single theory on its own can be effectively in group counseling to benefit each individual participating in the group. Therefore, group counseling must include a combination of cognitive and behavioral techniques because I believe that no single theory has all the answers. An Integrative approach to group counseling can be a necessary advantage for a leader to relate to each person with in the group. Norcross and Beutler…

According to a prolific rabbi and author, "None of us can truly be human in isolation" (Kushner). Isolation can lead to not being a person's true self. According to William Golding, Lord of the Flies and expert in the fields of psychiatry and psychology, isolation affects mental health. In the book Lord of the Flies, Simon and Jack are both starting to have problems regarding mental health and isolation. There are many examples of isolation causing mental health problems. Simon is hallucinating…

In expressive writing individuals are able to express their emotions in their own words without using another person’s thoughts to provoke their thoughts (Baikie & Wilhelm, 2005). Narrative therapy allows for individuals to free drive their interventions of grief and loss on their own terms. Journaling gives individuals the words they are seeking to be able to accept the loss and eventually be able to move towards reintegrating themselves back…