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AP Psychology 3.5 Treatment of Abnormal Behavior. What is rational emotive behavior therapy?
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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by nutritional guidance [People with a table of food]
- 00:07
offered up endlessly and without prompt by grandmother's around the world..
- 00:11
What is rational emotive behavior therapy.... here are the potential answers
- 00:17
....Well rational emotive behavior sounds a
- 00:22
bit like an oxymoron no because there's definitely rational behavior like say [Spock appears]
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- 00:26
seeing an empty jar of peanut butter in the cupboard and rather than freaking
- 00:30
out deciding instead to just dump some jam on your toast right and then there's
- 00:35
the more emotive behavior like going on a peanut butter craving fueled tirade to [Man searches cupboard for peanut butter]
- 00:40
discover exactly who decided that it was appropriate to put the empty jar back in
- 00:44
the cupboard in the first place so you need to buy a new one at Safeway the next [Man shopping in Safeway]
- 00:46
time you were there mm-hmm so what exactly does rational emotive behavior
- 00:51
therapy or REBT do well based on the name alone we can safely assume it
- 00:55
doesn't provide nutritional guidance even if some irrational emotional [Man holding a cake]
- 00:59
behavior happens to manifest itself in the form of say eating an entire triple
- 01:03
chocolate cake in one sitting and unless the rational emotive behavior we're
- 01:07
talking about involves rationalizing a weird internalized crush you may or may [Pictures of a family and baby appears]
- 01:12
not have on one of your parents which thankfully it doesn't then the very
- 01:15
Freud sounding answer involving the super-ego doesn't fit either and the
- 01:19
whole idea about self actualization makes us think of Maslow who makes us [Man thinking of Maslow]
- 01:23
think of his hierarchy of needs not REBT..As for D) there's nothing inherently
- 01:28
wrong with the idea of visualizing a better life for yourself but our answer [Man thinking of himself on a beach]
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is looking for something concrete that affects behavior not something that well
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it sounds like it belongs on Oprah... Developed by Albert Ellis REBT helps
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patients see the irrationality of their thought patterns in an effort to improve
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them it relies on the idea that people want to be happy and it's not specific [Two boys look at a half empty glass of milk]
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events that make people unhappy but the way in which we think about these
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events... change the thought process change your life one key aspect of REBT
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however is the ability to actually identify irrational thought processes [Man with 14 jars of peanut butter in shopping cart]
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which well some are better at doing than others...
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you
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