RATIONAL EMOTIVE

BEHAVIOR THERAPY &

TECHNIQUES
• Rigid Attitude (Desire + demand)
• Awfulizing attitude (Bad + Awful that it happened)
• Discomfort intolerance attitude (it is a struggle and I cant even bear it)
• Depreciating attitude (It is bad +I am bad) (Holding themselves responsible for
the adversity)
•Common core irrational beliefs include:

1. absolutistic musts and shoulds

2. awfulizing
3. I-can’t-stand-it-it is
4. Damning oneself and others
C= CONSEQUENCE
C= CONSEQUENCE
TECHNIQUES OF REBT
•There are different kinds of disputations:

1. Functional disputes – questioning whether the belief helps accomplish desired goals.
2. Empirical disputes – questioning whether the “facts” are accurate.
3. Logical disputes – questioning the logic of thinking processes.
4. Philosophical disputes – (Which is not philosophical I the technical sense) questioning whether despite
dissatisfactions if some pleasure can be derived from life anyway.
COGNITIVE
Other techniques include:
1. Modeling - asking a client to emulate someone who demonstrates the desired behavior.
2. Referenting – cost benefit analysis of the behavior
3. Cognitive homework – e.g. identifying and disputing irrational beliefs
4. Bibliotherapy and psychoeducational assignments – books, lectures, groups
5. Proselytizing – sharing the approach with others
6. Recording sessions – allows clients to review ideas they may have missed and to reinforce other ideas.
7. Reframing – viewing a problem from a different perspective, which gives it a different meaning.
8. Stop and monitor – establish cues to stop and notice thought processes throughout the day.
EMOTIVE
1. Rational emotive imagery
2. Forceful coping statements
3. Forceful taped disputing
4. Role playing
5. Reverse role playing
6. Humor (includes Ellis’s songs)
7. Unconditional acceptance by the therapist
8. Teaching unconditional self-acceptance and unconditional other acceptance
9. Encouragement
10. Encounter exercises
BEHAVIORAL
1. reinforcements
2. penalties
3. shame-attacking exercises
4. skill training
5. paradoxical homework
6. relapse prevention
7. in vivo desensitization
8. staying in difficult situations
9. acting on rational beliefs