LIT 20600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Therapy
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Self-defeating: we have a tendency to make ourselves emotionally disturebed by internalizing self-defeating beliefs. Activating event belief consequence emotional or behavioral . A = activating event: internal or external to the individual, feelings at c may serve as a new a. B = beliefs: evaluative cognitions, constructed views of the world, rational or irrational. C = emotional, behavioral, cognitive consequences of belief about activating event. Irrational beliefs lead to unhealthy negative emotions: psychic pain and discomfort, motivate self-defeating behaviors, prevents behavior necessary to achieve goals, lead to dysfunctional thinking. Rational beliefs about difficult/disappointing situations lead to healthy negative emotions. In reality it"s more complex a->b->c: dogmatic beliefs may cause overly negative perception of events, feelings at c (e. g. , depression) may cause overly negative evaluation of a or b (or both) Demands about self: i (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e app(cid:396)o(cid:448)ed, do (cid:449)ell, o(cid:396) it"s awful, leads anxiety, depression, shame, guilt.
