Rational Emotive Cognitive Behavior Therapy - REBT + CBT

Explore the philosophy behind rebt and cbt, tracing stoic philosophy and influential thinkers while highlighting how language shapes emotions and thoughts to empower clients through evidence-based, holistic methods.

Identify two basic biological tendencies: the impulse to think irrationally and the drive to avoid pain, and apply CBT/REBT principles of choice and unconditional acceptance to reduce irrational thinking.

Explore the power of choice in REBT and CBT, emphasizing personal responsibility and a choice-based approach that helps clients recognize irrational patterns and pursue rational, goal-oriented decisions.

Identify and shift the three levels of thinking, inferences, evaluations, and core beliefs, to help clients recognize irrational rules and biases, applying CBT/REBT insights for lasting change.

Explore how irrational beliefs about the self (ego disturbance) and about discomfort (discomfort disturbance) drive ego anxiety, avoidance, and worry, and how CBT addresses them.

Explore the three major musts in rational emotive behavior therapy (I must, others must, life must), their sub-beliefs, and resulting emotional and behavioral consequences within CBT practice.

Explore the three levels of insight in REBT, unpack the ABC model, and learn how irrational beliefs drive consequences and require disputation and practice.

Discover three fundamentals of rational emotive behavior therapy: interactionism links thoughts, feelings, and actions; constructivism emphasizes personal responsibility and choice; and responsible hedonism pursues long-term well-being through real-world strategies.

Identify the four major irrational beliefs in REBT—demanding this, off lazing, discomfort intolerance, and people rating—then shift to rational thinking to lessen ego disturbance and emotional pain.

Apply self-talk identification techniques, including visual imagery, inference chaining, sentence completion, simple examples and stories, and two-story alternatives, to reveal clients' beliefs, emotions, and behaviors in REBT and CBT sessions.

Explore how REBT distinguishes healthy negative from unhealthy negative emotions and emphasizes emotional awareness. Help clients shift toward resourceful emotional states by reframing irrational thinking and using goal-oriented CBT questions.

Guide clients to describe the problem in their own words and define a specific target. Agree with the client on the target and set actionable goals.

Apply the ABCDE model to break down how thoughts drive emotions and behavior, linking activating events to beliefs, consequences, disputation, and effective new beliefs.

Apply the ABC model to assess activating events, consequences, and irrational beliefs. Use questions and the hundred people technique to guide disputation with five dispute methods.

Design collaborative homework in REBT and CBT to treat therapy as training, using cognitive, imagery, emotive, and behavioral tasks that clients negotiate to reach goals.

Learn to form a new effective belief in cognitive behavioral therapy by disputing irrational beliefs and following a four-step process: negate, reaffirm, develop an action plan, and negate again.

Outline future sessions with clear goals, timelines, and homework review, then apply CBT's ABC model, disputation, and action to build new rational beliefs.

Apply the ABC model in REBT and CBT sessions to review homework, identify the target problem, analyze antecedents and consequences, and dispute irrational beliefs with cognitive and behavioral strategies.

Learn how disputation in REBT + CBT identifies and challenges long-held irrational beliefs by linking beliefs to consequences, using detection, discrimination, and debate to promote change.

Learn the three primary disputation types—reality, logic, and pragmatism—plus philosophical, friend, creditors, didactic, and storytelling disputes, using creative questioning to help clients refute irrational beliefs.

Explore the three disputation techniques—emotional, cognitive, and behavioral—to challenge irrational beliefs by examining emotions, self-talk, and evidence, and by taking action to rewrite thinking, feeling, and behavior.

Explore emotive disputation in REBT with techniques like time projection, rational emotive imagery, reverse role play, empty chair, two-chair technique, paradoxical intention, and self-disclosure to reframe fears and foster rational coping.

Explore cognitive disputation techniques in rebt, including identifying and disputing irrational musts, detecting and discriminating beliefs, debating them with questions, and using coping statements and reframing.

Apply behavioral disputation within REBT and CBT to transform irrational beliefs through action, using risk taking, cost-benefit analysis, homework, systematic desensitization, exposure, and shame attacking to drive real-world change.

Explore how rational emotive behavior therapy and CBT apply in clinical and non-clinical settings, using individual, group, and workplace approaches to reshape beliefs and behavior.

Reflect on who you serve with CBT and REBT, identify challenges, and integrate skills to enhance your practice. Build clarity to become a more effective CBT helper.

Celebrate your progress from day one to now and commit to continual growth as a helper who can impact others. Build confidence as the foundation for ongoing success.