Rational Emotional Behavioral Therapy (REBT) is a psychotherapy method, which aims to help individuals better manage negative emotions through positive cognitive methods.
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This method focuses on the possible rigid thinking and overreaction of individuals, and changes their emotional and behavioral reactions by challenging these thinking and behavior patterns. The basic assumption of REBT is that it is not the external environment that causes our emotional and behavioral reactions, but our thoughts and explanations of these events.
REBT separates behavior from emotion and thinks that emotion is the result of thought and belief. This therapy aims to help individuals discover and change unreasonable beliefs in their own thinking, thus changing their emotional experience and behavioral response.
Through REBT, individuals can learn how to establish more positive and healthy beliefs and psychological models by challenging negative and rigid thinking patterns, and prevent and alleviate various negative emotional reactions such as stress, anxiety and depression.
REBT is a therapeutic method that has been strictly studied and supported by a lot of empirical evidence, and is widely recognized internationally. It was invented by American psychiatrist albert ellis in 1950s.
The theoretical basis of REBT is "ABC model", that is, the causal relationship between events (adversity), beliefs (beliefs) and emotional expression (consequences). REBT aims at challenging unreasonable beliefs (b), making patients re-examine events (a), thus changing their emotional expression (c), and finally achieving the purpose of relieving psychological problems.
Compared with other traditional treatment methods, REBT pays more attention to individual thinking patterns and beliefs. For example, some people have the belief of "perfectionism", and they demand too much of themselves and their surroundings.
It often leads to negative emotions such as anxiety, stress and depression. REBT can help patients to establish more reasonable beliefs by challenging these unreasonable beliefs, so as to reduce or eliminate these negative emotional reactions.
In a word, REBT is a therapeutic method that attaches importance to individual thoughts, manages emotions in a positive cognitive way, and achieves the purpose of changing emotional expression.