Arthur Ellis and his ABC model

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Permalink Reply by Susan French on December 6, 2009 at 8:19am

Who is Arthur Ellis?

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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on December 6, 2009 at 8:23am

You mean Albert Ellis,

Albert Ellis (September 27, 1913 – July 24, 2007) was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed rational emotive behavior therapy. He held M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University and founded and was the president and president emeritus of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute. He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and the founder of cognitive-behavioral therapies. Based on a 1982 professional survey of U.S. and Canadian psychologists, he was considered as the second most influential psychotherapist in history (Carl Rogers ranked first in the survey; Sigmund Freud was ranked third)

Every bookstore and every library in the world has his books.

Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on December 6, 2009 at 8:25am

http://counsellingresource.com/types/rational-emotive/index.html

REBT employs the 'ABC framework' -- depicted in the figure below -- to clarify the relationship between activating events (A); our beliefs about them (B); and the cognitive, emotional or behavioural consequences of our beliefs (C). The ABC model is also used in some renditions of cognitive therapy or cognitive behavioural therapy, where it is also applied to clarify the role of mental activities or predispositions in mediating between experiences and emotional responses.

The figure below shows how the framework distinguishes between the effects of rational beliefs about negative events, which give rise to healthy negative emotions, and the effects of irrational beliefs about negative events, which lead to unhealthy negative emotions.

In addition to the ABC framework, REBT also employs three primary insights:

While external events are of undoubted influence, psychological disturbance is largely a matter of personal choice in the sense that individuals consciously or unconsciously select both rational beliefs and irrational beliefs at (B) when negative events occur at (A)
Past history and present life conditions strongly affect the person, but they do not, in and of themselves, disturb the person; rather, it is the individual's responses which disturb them, and it is again a matter of individual choice whether to maintain the philosophies at (B) which cause disturbance.
Modifying the philosophies at (B) requires persistence and hard work, but it can be done.

Permalink Reply by angela partoon on December 6, 2009 at 8:33am

Sorry, never type when thinking of something else. It is Albert not Arthur;I am after quotes specific to him, not those variations developed when applying the theory.
angela