RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR

THERAPY
(ALBERT ELLIS)

PREPARED BY:
PATRICK DUFFY ANAK BAYUONG
SITI HAJJAR BINTI ABD RAZAK

HISTORY OF RATIONAL EMOTIVE

BEHAVIOR THERAPY
PERSONAL LIFE

Born in Pittsburgh 1913

Moved to New York City in 1917
Oldest of three children
Hospitalized nine times as a child
for kidney disease
Became self-sufficient at an early
age
Used rational approaches to deal
with the rejection as a young man
Undergraduate degree from City
College of New York in 1934
Continues to work at the Albert
Ellis Institute for Rational living;
very active in professional practice
Many awards and honors

PROFESSIONAL LIFE

Interested in philosophy of the Stoics

Influenced by European philosophers
who wrote about happiness and
rationally Spinoza, Nietszche, Kant
Studied
modern
philosophers
emphasis on cognition Dewey,
Russell, and Popper
Influenced by Adlers focus on beliefs
Started the Journal of RationalEmotive Behavior and CognitiveBehavior Therapy
Wrote over 725 articles and 60
books,
including
Reason
and
Emotion in Psychotherapy, 1962,
Humanistic
Psychotherapy;
The
Rational Emotive Approach, 1973

RATIONAL EMOTIVE THEORY

OF PERSONALITY
Elliss A-B-C model
A - Activating Event
B - Belief System
C - Consequences

REBTS PHILOSOPHICAL
VIEWPOINTS
Hedonism
concept of
seeking
pleasure and
avoiding pain

Uncondition
al SelfAcceptance
(USA)
Individual
have worth.

Humanism
human
interests and
dignity are
valued

Rational
thinking
Thinking,
feeling, and
acting in ways
that will help
individuals
attain their
goals.

RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR

THEORY OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
GOALS
A general goal of REBT is to help clients minimize
emotional disturbances, decrease self-defeating
behaviors, and become happier. If individuals can think
rationally and have fewer irrational beliefs, Ellis believes
that they will live happier lives. REBT teaches
individuals how to deal with negative feelings such as
sorrow, regret, frustration, depression, an anxiety.
Virtually all client problems are viewed from the
perspective of the contribution of their irrational beliefs.

The A-B-C-D-E Therapeutic

Approach
A (Activating Event)
B (Beliefs)
C (Consequences)
D (Disputing) Detecting,
Discriminating, Debating
E (Effect)