Ellis

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    • 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
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