COUN222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cognitive Restructuring, Psychoeducation
8 Aug 2018
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Founder of rational emotive behaviour therapy (rebt), emerged in the 1950"s. Rebt (originally rational therapy) was one of the 1st cognitive therapies: to see ellis describe rebt, http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=gyre- 78g_z0. If you profoundly change your thinking, you therefore change your behaviour and emotions. Thinks makes us feel in a disturbed manner. Parents arent responsible, we are born influenced and then lear our own commands and therefore you develop your own disturbed thought/feel/behaviour. Becoming conscious of your own disturbed thoughts and understanding cognition that will change your disturbed emoti. If i am contributing then i am able to change. People contribute to their own problems, as well as to specific symptoms, by th way they interpret events and situations. People don"t just get upset, they contribute to their upsetness - ellis. If you can control it, you can change it. Rational beliefs: flexible, non-extreme, true, sensible - it makes sense; someone else can follow it.
