A Brief Introduction To Rational Emotive （简要介绍理性的情感）.pdf

A Brief Introduction To Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy By Wayne Froggatt Third Ed.(this version Feb 2005) Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is based on the concept that emotions and behaviours result from cog- nitive processes; and that it is possible for human beings to modify such processes to achieve different ways of feel- ing and behaving. REBT is one of a number of therapies that come under the heading ‘cognitive-behavioural’. In the mid-1950’s Dr. Albert Ellis, a clinical psy- (about themselves, other people, and the world in chologist trained in psychoanalysis, became disil- general). It is what people believe about situations lusioned with the slow progress of his clients. He they face – not the situations themselves – that de- observed that they tended to get better when they termines how they feel and behave. changed their ways of thinking about themselves, REBT, however, also argues that a person’s their problems, and the world. Ellis reasoned that biology also affects their feelings and behaviours therapy would progress faster if the focus was – an important point, as it is a reminder to the directly on the client’s b