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| Who was the founder of rational emotive therapy? |
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| What category does RET fall under? |
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| Cognitive behavioral counseling |
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| What does it mean when RET people say directive? |
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-REBT helps the client find the irrational beliefs and change them
-The therapist can do most of the work instead of asking the client to take responsibility |
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| What are some basic philosophical assumptions of RET? |
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-People are born with the potential to be rational.
-Culture and family tend to reinforce that which is irrational.
-Because our family influences are the strongest when growing up, there is more exposure to irrational behavior.
-People perceive, think, and act simultaneously. (If you change one, you'll change all of them) |
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| What is RET's view of neurosis or anxiety? |
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RET is about disputing irrational beliefs.
-People become neurotic because they have irrational beliefs. |
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| What are the 12 irrational beliefs? |
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1. It is absolutely necessary for an adult to have love and approval from peers, family, and friends.
2.You must be unfailingly competent and perfect in everything you do.
3. Certain people are evil, wicked, and villainous and should be punished.
4. It is horrible when people and things don't go the way you want them to.
5. External events cause most human misery; people simple react as event trigger their emotions.
6. You should feel fear and anxiety about anything that is unknown, uncertain, or potentially dangerous.
7. It is easier to avoid than face life's responsibilities and difficulties.
8. You need something stronger than or other than yourself to rely on.
9. The past determine the future.
10. Happiness is achieved by endless leisure.
11.There is one perfect solution to every problem, and it is terrible when it cannot be found.
12. Life should be fair. |
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| How do you know a belief is irrational? |
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| "absolutely necessary, should, ought" |
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| RET view of emotional disturbances |
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| -Emotional disturbances are usually always associated with an irrational belief. |
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| The act of practice of talking to oneself, either aloud or silently and mentally |
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| What are some of the techniques of RET? |
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-Cognitive homework: try to figure out should, must, ought, thoughts and change them
-emotive techniques: rational emotive imagery |
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| What does it mean for the RET therapist to have full acceptance and tolerance? |
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| -You have to have full acceptance and tolerance for what indivduals do, aka unpositive regard. |
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| How does the RET therapist use negative imagery? |
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-Picture self in a place where you are not comfortable.
-See the self as acting more effectively/ |
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| What is behavior therapy characterized by? |
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-Most closely associated with principles of learning.
-Use of reinforcement and punishment |
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| What is the role of verbalization and insight in behavioral therapy? |
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| Behavioral therapy isn't very introspective. |
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Wolpe used classical conditioning in the form of systematic desensitization, learning to relax and then gradually exposing the client to the stressor.
-Called systematic desen. through reciprocal inhibition. |
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| What is the goal of an assertive response? |
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| -To make sure that you uphold your own rights and the rights of others. |
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| What are the three types of assertion? |
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1. Basic assertion: any honest comment that upholds one's own rights while also upholding the rights of someone else
2. Confrontive assertion- to address a disservice of your own rights, description of behavior, description of the effect, the feeling associated with the effect of the behavior, request
-response to confrontive assertion that did not work
-all four of confrontive, consquence |
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| -Most influential psychologist, legitimized behavioral therapy. |
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| What do the principles of learning have to do with behavioral therapy? |
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| -Hypothesis, design an experiment, collect data, analyze data, draw conclusions, revise hypothesis. |
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| What does differentiation mean? |
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| Making sure each member of the family is an individual and isn't partaking in enmeshment. |
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| Who is differentiation most closely associated with? |
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| What does it mean to have a systems approach to therapy? |
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-What purpose does this clients' behavior serve the system?
-It doesn't diagnose, it looks at family rules and functions.
-It doesn't concern the individual's perspective, so the therapist speaks to the entire family at once. |
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| What were the basic communication stances according to Satir? |
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| -Blaming, placating, irrelevant, super reasonable |
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| Carl Whitaker: what type of therapy is most closely related in individual therapy? |
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-Group experience of experiential counseling
-experiential counseling is most closely related to existential therapy |
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| What does triangulation mean? |
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| When two people with an issue recruit another member of the family and focus on the third person. |
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| Who was the first person to coin the term triangulation> |
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| -Satir's verison of triangulation |
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| How does triad differ from triangulation? |
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| -Loving and trusting/ related combination of triangulation |
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| What is Bowen's form of therapy? |
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-Multigenerational family therapy
- it is about individualization |
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| What type of therapy/ to whom is individual therapy is it closely related to? |
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| -Rational Emotive Therapy |
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| What is Satir's form of therapy? |
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-Human validation model
-More worried about relatedness than individuation.
-Modify family rules to make them functional. |
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| Who was the most closely aligned in individual therapy? |
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| -Roger's person centered therapy |
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