Albert Ellis

1. Biographical data of theorist: Albert Ellis Influential events in Albert Ellis’s life include: his mother being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, his father who showed little affection for him, numerous health problems while growing up, his family being effected by the Great Depression, obtaining a BA in business, and opening his own business that failed. Ellis after the failure of his business became a psychotherapist. It is while working as psychoanalysis he realized that his patients were not becoming better he believed this was because they kept reindoctrinating themselves with dysfunctional demands. REBT is strongly influenced by Adler’s Individual Psychology. View of personality development Personality: REBT emphasizes the A-B-C…

Review of Literature Jeickob Tinoco Lanier Technical College of Georgia Author Note First paragraph: Complete departmental and institutional affiliation Second paragraph: Changes in affiliation (if any) Third paragraph: Acknowledgments, funding sources, special circumstances Fourth paragraph: Contact information (mailing address and e-mail)  Abstract This study takes a look into the reappraisal ability of several age groups in order to determine whether its development proceeds linearly or in…

Barnes, A., & Harlacher, J. (2008, August 1). Clearing the Confusion: Response-to-Intervention as a Set of Principles. Retrieved October 3, 2015. This article focuses on the lack of emphasis on the flexible nature of RTI and the changing descriptions of it may lead to confusion among school professionals. It explains that there are 5 key principles and 4 features of RTI, they are extensively outlined in this article. RTI is described as a set of principles that do not change, but vary in…

The Role of Neurophysiology in the Treatment of Rett Syndrome Rett syndrome, named after Dr. Andreas Rett (Briggs,2014) who first identified the condition, is a severe neurodevelopment disorder characterized by compromised brain functions, severe mental retardation, language and learning disabilities, repetitive stereotyped hand movements, and developmental regression (Liyanage & Rastegar, 2014). The high prevalence of Rett syndrome in small children and the associated developmental regression…

Getting Started: Couples counseling is different from the individual counseling, couples counseling is active, structured, and the time is around 10 to 12 sessions. The individual counseling is passive, slow, and it takes months. The individual therapy, the therapist is always on the side of the client, while the therapist in the couple therapy never takes a side. Individual therapy, the therapist has to feel connected with the client, but the couple therapist, the therapist has to be close…

Life On September 27, 1913 Albert Ellis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then moved to New York City. His parents, whom he had a distant emotional relationship with, divorced when he was 12 years old. Observing them taught him much about understanding others around him. In 1934, he went to the City University of New York and received a bachelor degree in business administration but learned that this was not for him. Albert enjoyed writing and began writing fiction novels but…

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) CBT was developed by Aron Beck who his ideas form research work of Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). CBT, like the name suggests, is a hybrid of cognitive therapy and behaviour therapy. CBT talks about how our cognitive process has an effect on our emotions which in turn effects our behaviour. Initially CBT was used to treat only depression but after extensive research on the subject over the period of years, it is now used to treat…

Before the federal government took over control of immigration in the 1890’s, Ellis Island was just another piece of land in New York Harbor. As it was called Gibbet Island back then, it was named after the wooden post, or gibbet, where the bodies of the convicted were displayed. It was a place where convicted pirates were hanged to the gallows in the 1820’s until 1839, “it would be their last chance to witness such a horrific spectacle in Gibbet Island” (Cannato pg. 23). Since Congress wasn’t…

Middlebury struggle session. (2017, Apr 25). Wall Street Journal Retrieved from http://rdas-proxy.mercy.edu:2048/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.rdas-proxy.mercy.edu/docview/1891314915?accountid=12387 In this article based on Charles Murray Middlebury case, Bert Johnson, chair of Middlebury political science department apologized for the violent student’s behavior. Johnson apologized in the campus newspaper. The article also explained that 30 Middlebury students received “accepted…

"The Founding Brothers", written by Joseph J. Ellis, can be described as a nonfiction that summarizes the events in the revolutionary generation and its great leaders, by incorporating them into six individual stories. The six stories in “The Founding Brothers”, talked about six completely different topics, which were all centralized around Ellis thesis in “The Founding Brothers”. Ellis’ main purpose in writing “The Founding Brothers” was to illustrate, the connections between the political…