Rational emotive behavior therapy

The article “School counselor consultation: Enhancing teacher performance through rational emotive-social behavioral consultation,” Jeffrey Warren and Stanley Baker, discusses the viability of the Rational Emotive-Social Behavioral Consultation (RE-SBC) model for use by school counselors in support of teachers and students alike, which are experiencing social-emotional issues. They also provide an overview of theory and concepts that can be applied during a consultation, as well as case examples…

In 1955 a psychologist named Albert Ellis created a cognitive behavioral therapy called; Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy or REBT. Ellis’s therapy makes a client challenge their beliefs of irrationality with ones more rational. An example of an irrational thought is: “Everyone canceled on going to the club this weekend, everyone hates me!” Ellis noticed three things people were ignoring while he was creating REBT; people ignore positivity, people over exaggerate the negative, and people find…

Theory The theoretical orientation that I have begun to align with is Rational Emotive Behavior Group Counseling Theory (REBT). Albert Ellis created this theory in 1955. This theory revolves around the core concept of rational and irrational beliefs. A rational beliefs are consistent with reality, logical, enhances both the self and relationships. On the other hand, irrational beliefs are seen to be a psychological disturbance (Dryden, 2005). An irrational thought is illogical, defeating and…

Summary: This therapy is also known as Cognitive Behavioral Intervention. The therapy is the “instruction on management or control of cognitive processes that lead to changes in overt behavior.” (Wong, 2014) While this is not an explicit “educational” intervention it is needed because of the incidence of anxiety disorders in tandem with ASD. The rate of anxiety disorders in children age 13-18 years old is at 25.1% (NIMH, 2015). The average percentage estimated for high functioning individuals…

is a functional assessment of behavior? Describe the A-B-C model of behavioral assessment? A functional assessment of behavior also referred to as a behavioral analysis is the process by which behavior therapists examine the present environmental events maintaining problem behaviors in an attempt to assist clients in changing their behaviors through changing the environmental events associated with the problem behaviors. A functional assessment is conducted by behavior therapists as a means of…

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 enough to understand the couples otherwise he or she will take a side. In the couple therapy, the therapist needs to be aware that the problem is not just between the…

assessment, the counselor focuses keenly on attending and the expression of empathy. The joining process is essential to the success of the therapy overall. Once the therapeutic relationship is well-established, the counselor will utilize the life assessment, cognitive homework, rational emotive imagery, and talk therapy to uncover areas of the client’s thinking or behavior that need attention and modification. Once these areas are identified, the next course of action may be applied. This…

when dealing with divorce groups there are special skills that the group leader needed, such as knowledge of grief counseling and not to be afraid of emotional pain. Also, the group leaders should use Rational emotive behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. These two types of therapies are useful because many times during recovery group members are telling themselves several irrational sentences about approval, failure, and happiness. The fourth important concept to remember…

Client has come to therapy to discuss her current romantic relationship. Her parents love her boyfriend, he has a great job at a young age, looks good on paper, but he is not the man she wants him to be. Client and her current partner are not communicating effectively, or as much as she wants. She says they only talk on the phone once or twice a week due to his heavy workload, working with UCLA athletics. Traveling all over the country doesn’t leave enough time for them to spend together. Client…

Nineteen Minutes Nineteen Minutes is a narrative about what can happen when we least expect it and how little time it takes for life to be turned upside down in New Hampshire’s small rural town of Sterling. “In nineteen minutes, you can order a pizza and get it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. In nineteen minutes you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge” (Nineteen Minutes, 2007 pg. 5). On the morning of…