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This 6 page paper provides an overview of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and how the client-counselor relationship develops. Specific techniques a counselor using this model should embrace are duly noted. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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with self defeating tendencies (McGinn, 1997). It is the brainchild of Albert Ellis and is quite well known amongst psychologists. According to R.E.B.T., when something goes wrong, people have a
choice of feeling healthy emotions such as sorrow, disappointment or frustration or negative emotions such as terror, depression and self-pity (1997). The former are considered healthy because they entice the
individual to try again (1997). For example, if a child loses at baseball and decides not to play the game again because of the emotional consequences, he is feeling sorry
for himself. On the other hand, if he becomes angry because he was not paying attention or did not practice enough, he may go home and practice pitching or batting
so that he might win the next time. While he is experiencing negative emotions in both instances, there is only a positive and rational component in the latter. According to
Ellis, which emotion a person chooses depends primarily on their belief systems (McGinn, 1997). It is not their goals and values which are important but rather what goes
on in their heads when they meet obstacles (1997). Ellis contends that human beings often choose irrational ways of thinking which goes something like this:"...because I dont like what
is going on, it absolutely should not exist, it must not be, I cant stand it, its horrible, I think Ill kill myself etc." (qtd. in McGinn, 1997, p.309).
Ellis says that there are only three basic demands which lead to neurotic behavior, the first of which is the belief that a person must do well or be loved
by people or they are no good; such a belief leads to depression and feelings of inadequacy (McGinn, 1997). The second belief is almost the opposite and suggests that people
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