Rational emotive behaviour therapy

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What did Ellis find?
Trained in psychoanalysis but found its methods unscientific
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What did Ellis suggest was the fundamental goals of human nature?
To survive; to be relatively free from pain; to be reasonably satisfied, content
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What is the rational living?
Helps achieve goals
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What is irrational living?
Prevents from achieving goals
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What are the two opposing biological tendencies?
Self preservation, actualisation, happiness, rational thought and self destruction, irrational thought, perfectionism, supertisition
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What are the internalised sentences?
Thinking and emotion
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What is the ABC theory of personality?
People create their own emotional disturbances
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What is ABC?
Activating event --> belief --> consequences (emotional and behavioural
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What are rational beliefs?
Healthy, productive, adaptive, consistent with social reality
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What are irrational beliefs?
Rigid, dogmatic, unhealthy, maladaptive
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What is rational beliefs?
Preferences
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What are irrational beliefs?
Demands, musts, shoulds
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What are primary demanding beliefs?
Musturbation
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What is musturbation?
I must do well, you must treat me well, the world must be easy
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What are derivativeS?
Awfulizing, i cant stand it itis, damning self
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What are secondary demanding beliefs?
Miserable about misery
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What are derivatives?
Awfulizing, I-cant-stand-it-itis, damning
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What did Ellis suggest about Neuroses?
be grouped into 2 main categories
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What are these two categories?
Ego disturbance and low fustration tolerance
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What is ego disturbance?
I must do well and always gain approval
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What is low fustration tolerance?
I am so special that things must be easy and satisfying, others must treat me well
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What is acquisition?
Biological tendencies, social learning, little elaboration
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How are they maintained?
Biological tendencies (short range hedonism), emphasizing the past, insufficient scientific thinking, reinforcing consequences
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