FRHD 3150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 27: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Verbal Behavior, Chapter 27

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3150
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

1) individuals interpret and react to events by forming cognitions, beliefs, expectations, attitudes on the basis of the perceived significant of those events: defective or maladaptive cognitions can cause emotional and behavioural disorders. Cognitive therapists believe that faulty thinking is the cause of emotional and behavioural problems-thus the primary approach is to help clients recognize and change faulty thinking. Cognitive reconstructing- strategies for recognizing maladaptive thinking and replacing it with adaptive thinking. Behavioural approach- viewpoint that cognitive approaches deal mainly with the clients private verbal behaviour and imagery. Albert ellis approach to therapy was to help people identify irrational thoughts or beliefs and to replace them with more rational self-statements. The ret approach is to teach clients to counteract such irrational self-statements with more positive and realistic statements. 4) therapists helps identify troubling thoughts therapists intensely challenges these thoughts (ex on pg 273) the therapist will give alternate explanations.