PSYC 3083 Chapter : PSYC 3083 Exam 2 Material
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Albert ellis : sex therapist, once feared talking to women, went out to the public and tried to talk to women; determined that he would sit next to 100 women after failing with. Human motivation : surviving and being responsibly happy, obtain pleasure and avoid pain. Irrational: rigid demanding musts or should illogical and unrealistic: 3 kinds of demandingness, self-demandingness: i absolutely must , other-demandingness: you absolutely must , world-demandingness: the conditions absolutely must , other irrational thinking, awfulizing. I-can"t-stand-it-it is or low frustration tolerance: damnation: rating as absolutely totally horrible, allness or overgeneralization. Page 327- 12 cognitive distortions- be able to recognize a cognitive distortion and know examples on exam. Therapy goals : eliminate irrational thinking, teach the rebt philosophy, change irrational to rational beliefs, rebt client must have insight to the abcs of life but to work to behave differently*
