Irrational thoughts aren't consistent with reality
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What is pragmatic disputing?
Challenging irrational thoughts based upon the idea that these thoughts aren't helpful
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Who developed REBT?
Ellis
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What did McGrath et al. find?
75% of patients responded well to SD
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What Ohman et al. state?
SD cannot treat all phobias as some are caused by evolutionary survival factors based on ancient fears that were used to aid survival in hunter-gatherer times so the phobia is harder to remove considering SD is based upon past experience
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Limitation of SD
Instead of removing symptoms, the symptoms are just substituted for new symptoms which then must be treated also
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An issue of CBT
Involves lots of cognitive processes on the part of the patient this may be inappropriate for those with severe learning difficulties or severe phobic disorders, unlike SD which may be more appropriate reducing CBT's population validity
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What did Alloy and Abraham find?
Those with disorders were accurate in their predictions of the likelihood of an natural disaster
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Advantage of CBT
Could be considered a holistic treatment as it tackles both irrational thoughts and the behaviour that occurs as a result
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What did Keller find?
52% success rate using just CBT and a 85% success rate in using more drug treatment and CBT
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What is empirical disputing?
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Irrational thoughts aren't consistent with reality
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