Terapi Rasional Emotif Perlakuan

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Terapi Rasional Emotif Perlakuan

• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
• (REBT)

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• Stresses thinking, judging, deciding, analyzing,
  and doing
• Assumes that cognitions, emotions, and behaviors
  interact and have a reciprocal cause-and-effect
  relationship
• Is highly didactic, very directive, and concerned
  as much with thinking as with feeling
• Teaches that our emotions stem mainly from our
  beliefs, evaluations, interpretations, and
  reactions to life situation

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View of Human Nature

• We are born with a potential for both rational
  and irrational thinking
• We have the biological and cultural tendency to
  think crookedly and to needlessly disturb
  ourselves
• We learn and invent disturbing beliefs and keep
  ourselves disturbed through our self-talk
• We have the capacity to change our cognitive,
  emotive, and behavioral processes

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The Therapeutic Process

• Therapy is seen as an educational process
• Clients Learn
• To identify and dispute irrational beliefs that
  are maintained by self-indoctrination
• To replace ineffective ways of thinking with
  effective and rational cognitions
• To stop absolutistic thinking, blaming, and
  repeating false beliefs

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THERAPIST'S ROLE

• Show client their irrational shoulds, oughts, and
  musts.
• Show client how they keep feeding their emotional
  disturbance.
• Help client modify thinking and abandon
  irrational ideas.
• Challenge client to develop a rational philosophy
  of life.

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Irrational Ideas/Beliefs

• Irrational ideas lead to self-defeating behavior
• Some examples
• I must have love or approval from all the
  significant people in my life
• I must perform important tasks competently and
  perfectly.
• If I dont get what I want, its terrible, and I
  cant stand it.

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Irrational Ideas/Beliefs

• MUST be loved and approved by those who matter.
• MUST be competent, adequate, achieving.
• People who act obnoxiously and unfairly are bad,
  or wicked and deserve blame.
• It is a CATASTROPHE when things do not go our
  way.
• Emotions CANNOT be controlled or feelings
  changed.
• MUST be anxious about things that seem dangerous
  or fearsome.
• It is best to avoid difficulties and
  responsibilities.
• The past determines our feelings today.
• People and things SHOULD be better than they are.
• Maximum happiness is through passively enjoying
  ourselves.

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The A-B-C Theory
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• Elliss Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
  eliminates self-defeating beliefs through
  rational examination

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Questions