This document discusses rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) techniques. REBT therapists use both cognitive and emotive techniques to dispute clients' irrational beliefs, including cognitive techniques like disputing beliefs, cognitive homework, and changing imprecise language. Emotive techniques include irrational emotive imagery, using humor, role playing, and shame-attacking exercises. Behavioral techniques include operant conditioning, self-management, and modeling. REBT has been applied to treat various disorders and in group counseling settings.

1. APPLICATION: THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES
AND PROCEDURE
Submitted to:
Prof. Agnes Montalbo
Rizal Technological University
Submitted by:
Kristel N. Bermas

2. THE PRACTICE OF RATIONAL
EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY
Rational emotive behavior therapists are
multimodal and integrative.
REBT distorted feelings and intensely
explores these feelings in connection with
thoughts and behavior.
REBT practitioners tend to use a number of
different modalities (cognitive, imagery,
emotive, behavioral, and interpersonal).

3. COGNITIVE METHOD
REBT practitioner s usually incorporate a
forceful cognitive methodology in the
therapeutic process.
They demonstrate to clients in a quick and
direct manner what it is that they are
continuing to tell themselves.
REBT relies heavily on thinking, disputing,
debating, challenging, interpreting,
explaining and teaching.

4. COGNITIVE TECHNIQUES
DISPUTING IRRATIONAL BELIEFS-
The most common cognitive method of
REBT consists of the therapist actively
disputing clients’ irrational beliefs and
teaching them how to do this
challenging on their own.

5. Clients go over a particular “must”,
“should”, or “ought” until they no
longer hold that irrational belief, or at
least until diminished in strength.

6. DOING COGNITIVE HOMEWORK
-REBT clients are expected to make
lists of their problems, look for their
absolutist beliefs, and dispute these
beliefs.

7. Homework assignments are a way of
tracking down the absolutist “should”
and “must” that are part of their
internalized self message.
In carrying out homework, clients are
encouraged to put themselves in risk
taking situations that will allow them
to challenge their self-limiting belief.

8. CHANGING ONE’S LANGUAGE
REBT contends that imprecise
language is one of the causes of
distorted thinking processes.
Clients learn that “musts”, “ought”,
and “should” can be replaced by
preferences.

9. PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL METHODS
REBT and most other cognitive
behavior therapy programs introduce
clients to various educational materials
Therapists educate clients about the
nature of their problems and how
treatment is likely to proceed.

10. EMOTIVE TECHNIQUES
REBT employs a variety of emotive
techniques, which tend to be vivid and
evocate in nature, the main purpose is
to dispute clients’ irrational beliefs.

11. IRRATIONAL EMOTIVE IMAGERY
This technique is a form of intense
mental practice designed to establish
new emotional patterns.
Clients imagine themselves thinking,
feeling, and behaving exactly the way
they would like to think, feel, and
behave in real life.

12. USING HUMOR
REBT contends that emotional
disturbances often result from taking
oneself too seriously.
Humor has both cognitive and
emotional benefits in bringing about
changes.

13. Ellis typically uses humorous songs,
and he encourages people to sing to
themselves or in groups when they feel
depressed or anxious

14. ROLE PLAYING
Role playing has emotive, cognitive, and
behavioral components, and the therapist
often interrupts to show clients what they
are telling themselves to create their
disturbances and what they can do to
change their unhealthy feelings to healthy
ones.

15. SHAME-ATTAKING EXERCISES
Ellis developed exercises to help people
reduce shame over behaving in certain way.
The exercise are aimed at increasing self-
acceptance and mature responsibility, as
well as helping clients see that much of
what they think of as being shameful has to
do with the way they define reality for
themselves.

16. USE OF FORCE AND VIGOR
Ellis has suggested the use of force and
energy as a way to help clients go from
intellectual to emotional insight.

17. BEHAVIORAL TECHNIQUES
REBT practitioners use most of the
standard behavior therapy procedures,
especially operant conditioning, self-
management principles, systematic
desensitization, relaxation techniques,
and modeling.

18. Behavioral homework assignments are
done systematically and are recorded
and analyzed on a form.

19. RESEARCH EFFORTS
This therapeutic flexibility makes
controlled research difficult.
Ellis admits that practically all therapy
outcome studies are flawed.
According to him, these studies mainly test
how people feel better but not how they
have made a profound philosophical-
behavioral change and therapy get better.

20. APPLICATION OF REBT TO
CLIENT POPULATION
REBT has been widely applied to the
treatment of anxiety, hostility,character
disorder,psychotic disorder, and
depression.
REBT can be applied to couples
counseling and family therapy

21. REBT as brief therapy
Ellis originally developed REBT to try
to make psychotherapy shorter and
more efficient than most other systems
of therapy, and it is often used as a
brief therapy.

22. APPLICATION TO GROUP
COUNSELING
-Cognitive behavior therapy(CBT) groups
are among the most popular in clinics and
community agency settings.
CBT practitioners employs an active role in
getting members to commit themselves to
practicing in everyday situation.