Ellis

• What is Ellis treatment ?


  Rational emotive behavioural therapy - REBT
• what does his theory aim to do ?

  challenge irrational beliefs
• what does Ellis believe ?

  • depression comes at the end point of a 3 point sequence
  • way you think about an event not the event itself
  • added 2 points onto the oringonal sequence
• What did Ellis add ?


  D- dispute

  E- effective new beliefs
• What was Ellis‘s process ?

  1. Identify any musturbatory beliefs that are emotionally damamging e.g “ I must be loved“
  2. therapist challenges beliefs through reframing and suggesting more realistic + positive ways of looking at life events
  3. clients practice more positive and optimistic ways of thinking
• How many sessions are there ?

  12- client learns the link between their thoughts. emotions and behaviour
• What is the final step of the process ?

  • behavioural activation and pleasant event scheduling
  • gets client out and about to boost self esteem as the therapist is confident they will sufeed.
• Evaluation ?

  1. Confrontational
  2. practical application
  3. free will
• Confrontational ?

  • shows a lack of sensitivity
  • make patient feel worse
  • damage psychology reputation
• Practical application

  • effective for aptients who are antisocial + excessive aggression
  • + those who feel guilty
• Comparison of two treatments ?

  1. treats cause and symptoms
  2. free will
  3. involves needing to take accountability for thoughts + comfortable to talk
• Treats cause + symptoms

  • reduce relaps rates
  • long term effects + solution
• Free will 


  Feel embarrassed/ to blame or empowered
• Able to talk freely 


  Not accessible to everyone
• Comparison ?

  1. Dispute section is more confrontational than beck
  2. therspist is more in control of interpreting the problem + offering a solution than beck