SW312: COUNSELLIG THEORY& PRACTICE

ACTION-ORIENTED APROACH- RATIONAL EMOTIVE COGNITIVE

BEHAVIORAL THERAPY

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NAME: SHEEMAL ARTIKA NAND

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Action-oriented approaches are for the most part described by their dependence on behaviorally
explicit intercessions and result measures. The action-oriented models are designed as the brief
treatment models. Cognitive Therapy Behavior is an AOT. The CBT is a transient way to deal
with psychological wellness treatment. It is like behavioral therapy; however it additionally
addresses pointless idea designs or risky considerations. The thought behind CBT is that
specific sentiments or beliefs you have about yourself or circumstances in your day to day
existence can prompt trouble. The distress may add to psychological health issues, or create as
a confusion of other emotional well-being issue, (Types of Therapy: Different Types of
Approaches and How They Work, 2021). Some types of CBT include, the Cognitive Processing
Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Rational Emotive Cognitive Behavior Therapy,
(Fuller, 2021). In this essay, I will be discussing how one of the forms of CBT that is, Rational
Emotive Cognitive Behavior Therapy which is applied to a case scenario and its relation to the
Pacific methods.

Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behavior Therapy (RECBT) is an action-oriented is an activity

situated type of treatment that advances change by instructing clients to recognize, defy, and
change their reckless musings and convictions, to considerations that advance objective
accomplishment and passionate prosperity. RECBT was created by Dr Albert Ellis, who was
roused by Asian, Roman, Greek and current rationalists, and RECBT can be viewed as both a
psychotherapeutic system of theory and practice as well as a school of thought, (Rational-
Emotive Therapy ) It assists an individual with figuring out how to challenge unreasonable
beliefs that add to emotional misery or different issues. The thought behind objective emotive
treatment is that supplanting irrational thoughts with more rational ones can improve your
wellbeing, (Raypole, 2021). RECBT is generally perceived as an early type of CBT and is
grounded in philosophical customs like Stoicism. This implies that at the establishment of this
type of treatment is a conviction that individuals are less sincerely influenced by outside factors,
as they are by their own perspectives, insights and disguised perspectives on external
occasions and circumstances. In RECBT, it is accepted that people build their perspective on
the real world however their language, implications, evaluative convictions and ways of thinking
of the world, themselves as well as other people, and that these zones (and not shocking
difficulties) are the genuine reason for irritated and troublesome feelings. The RECBT structure
proposes that individuals have both normal and irrational propensities and that these
inclinations are natural. I choose to employ a RECBT framework for the case scenario as Jenny
had come to seek a counselor because she experienced strong feelings dissatisfaction in her
life. According to the ABC model, the A (activating event) in the client (Jenny’s) life was that her
ongoing responsibility in taking acre for the son. he B is the Beliefs that occur due to the
adversity that is, Jenny’s beliefs were that she had to ensure and accommodate the entirety of
my family to be adored, to be beneficial, to have a spot on the planet, to be adored she should
continually demonstrate that she was competent, she needed to do what was generally
anticipated of her to be cherished, to be cherished she should not have wishes of her own, to be
cherished she should not commit an error and to be loved she should not allow her family to
down . The C is frameworks the consequence that occurs due to A and B. Thus, Jenny being
unemployed and her belief of having no hope of a good future ended her with the counselor
seeking help due to strong feelings of dissatisfaction in life, depression and despair.
Moreover, the features of the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy include; absence of
self-evaluation. REBT has an interesting way to deal with the normal therapeutic problem of 'low
self-confidence'. Numerous counselors would attempt to assist individuals with low confidence
by urging them to view themselves as commendable/worthy people. REBT therapist adopts a
different strategy – urging the client to toss out the possibility of confidence completely! This
includes surrendering the act of attempting to pass judgment on individuals as 'commendable'
(a thought, by chance, that infers it is workable for them to be 'unworthy'); and getting freed of
the possibility that individuals some way or another need esteem and value, (Froggatt, 2005). In
the case study, Jenny had lost all the hope and did not seem to have a good future as well, as
she was unemployed together with the son being dependent on her utterly. She had not been in
any relationship for long and was redundant as well which made her feel unworthy and empty. It
was Jenny’s friends who made her feel distress, but her son would have other commitments
with the mother; hence she had to cancel her plans with friends and it created disappointments
in the clients’ life.

However, disputing (D) is that the clients are prepared to effectively question their irrational
convictions so they can rebuild them into better beliefs. Therefore, Jenny had disputed amongst
the irrational conceptions involving her thoughts of childhood if it contributed thought the
usefulness or the negative impacts she faced at present. The effects (E) on the other hand, are
changing of one's beliefs about a circumstance to be more versatile and objective, which thusly
improves one's feelings, practices, and discernments, (Vinney, 2019). Jenny didn't need to be
liable for Brian's every need or prosperity.

Furthermore, a literature by Wolfe in 2007 (mentioned in Steiner, 2016) stated that the ABCDEs
practice at large provides a simple enlightenment of comprehending the emotions, thoughts and
behaviors of the client. In the literature by (Corey, 2005) theorists assumed that the issues and
the problems occurred due to the beliefs individuals hold. They assist clients with building up a
more inspirational viewpoint and the upkeep of positive comprehensions by rebuilding the
irrational thoughts and beliefs they hold. Hence, the consequences are actually determined
through our beliefs. On the off chance it is the beliefs that are the genuine culprit party as
opposed to the event, (Ackerman, 2021). It was during the counseling session, the counselor
had advised Jenny that the issues in her life were not due to the external events which was
unemployment, being divorced with no partner yet and a son who does nothing, but how she
had reacted to those external events.

REBT places a weighty accentuation on rationality and irrationality. In this unique situation,
irrationality is whatever is irrational or somehow or another prevents a person from arriving at
their drawn out objectives. Subsequently, objectivity has no set definition except for is subject to
the person's objectives and what will help them in arriving at those objectives. REBT battles that
nonsensical believing is at the core of mental issues. REBT focuses to a few explicit
unreasonable beliefs individuals show in the case study include; awfulizing, low frustration
tolerance and depreciation estimation. Awfulizing is defined as the secondary form of irrational
belief, (Dryden, 2020). It is where a person says an encounter or circumstance is the most
noticeably awful thing that might actually occur. Awfulizing articulations incorporate words like
"horrendous," "awful," and "loathsome." Taken in a real sense, these sorts of proclamations
leave a person with no place to go to advance a circumstance and hence aren't helpful
perspectives. The client Jenny faced awful experiences about life. Despite working at many
places she couldn’t be any happy. She was divorced had no romantic relationship and her son
who was 26 years of age, was completely dependent on her. All she could see was, things
turning worse from bad and was 101% certain of seeing no hope at all.

Consequently, a review made by Browne et.al (mentioned in Turner, 2016) states that having
irrational thoughts features numerous undesirable partners of irrational beliefs, like annoyance,
blame and disgrace, and psychopathological conditions including dissatisfaction, tension, and
self-destructive contemplations. An early study by Nelson (mentioned in Turner, 2016)
uncovered that the most grounded associations with depression arose for unreasonable beliefs
that mirrored a need to dominate in all undertakings, that it is awful when things are not the
manner in which one might want them to be, fanatical stress over future incidents, and the
inconceivability of beating the impacts of previous history. Jenny’s childhood was spent wih a
father who was alcoholic as well as aggressive, and she had a lot of pressure being the eldest
child in looking after the family. Her husband was also an alcoholics and she had divorced him
15 years ago. To an extent Jenny perceived that the cause for her unhappiness and despair life
was her life’s history. Another irrational thinking tendency of Rational Emotive Cognitive
Behavior Therapy is low frustration tolerance. LFT is the results from requests that
dissatisfaction not occur, trailed by catastrophizing when it does. It depends on convictions like:
The world owes me satisfaction and joy, (2021). Jenny felt the mere thought of intolerable since
she couldn’t see a light of hope and for things to turn better in her life. The only thing that gave
her little joy was hanging out with her friends and that too was hindered due to her incompetent
son.

Moving on, REBT helps treat depression, anxiety, dissatisfaction and despair through the three
basic principles; firstly by identifying the problem-solving skills, secondly, dealing with the
negative thought patterns, and thirdly, learning the improved ways to cope, (Lieber,2020).
Depression is an illness portrayed by regrettable reasoning and sensations of low confidence.
At the point when you master abilities to help you think all the more obviously and act all the
more helpfully, you settle on better choices in the present, yet you likewise convey the abilities
into what's to come. That assists with keeping the disposition problem from returning and is
particularly significant on the off chance that you have repeating episodes of discouragement.
REBT likewise assists with different problems, like uneasiness, outrage, dissatisfaction, and
anger that go with burdensome reasoning. Ongoing examination with mind checks shows that
REBT assists with forestalling backslide and standardizes brainwave designs. Other than
moving your mind from a discouraged state to ordinary, REBT and other intellectual preparing
strategies help you feel better as well. In the case study, the counselor had used the
diagrammatic technique by asking Jenny to sit on the floor and brainstorming about thought on
love and putting it in the paper being provided b counselor. This way Jenny reminisced her
about the history of life. And in this session Jenny had formed new and positive beliefs about
her life and in the end she was very elated with the information she had.

Therefore, by the end of the next session Jenny had gained enough confidence. The beliefs that
end up in regrettable feelings are, as per Albert Ellis, a variety of three regular irrational beliefs.
The second period of REBT's healing cycle is the dispute or challenge stage. That is, to act and
feel in an unexpected way, we should debate or challenge the irrational beliefs we encounter in
life. When people going through REBT can work through the debate or challenge of their
irrational thoughts, they can push toward how to take part in more powerful thoughts, behaviors,
and feelings. Named as a powerful new way of thinking on life, people in this stage begin to
perceive that there are no supreme "musts" – there is no proof that recommends these "three
musts" are the best way to think. To conclude, the essay has discussed the Rational Emotive
Cognitive Behavior Therapy in relation to the case scenario.

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