⚖️Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) | Free Course
Updated: Oct 19
Free Course by Everything IFS Academy | Therapeutic Modalities Series
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⚖️Welcome to the Free Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Course for Everyday People
This course exists because of Albert Ellis, the famously blunt, famously funny New York psychologist who created REBT in 1955, making it the very first of the cognitive behavioral therapies, the one the entire CBT family grew out of. Ellis has been ranked in professional surveys among the most influential psychotherapists in history, and his whole approach rests on one old, powerful idea he borrowed from the Stoic philosophers: it is rarely events themselves that upset us, but the beliefs we carry about those events, and those beliefs can be found, questioned, and changed.
This course teaches pure REBT, with no other modalities blended in, written in plain, everyday language with a little of Ellis's trademark bluntness baked in. You'll learn the famous ABC model, hunt down the rigid demands hiding inside your thinking, the musts, the shoulds, and the awfulizing that turn ordinary disappointment into full-blown misery, and practice disputing them until they loosen their grip. Each module offers clear teaching and real-life examples, and ends with a simple REBT practice so you can begin using the skill right away. It isn't clinical training for therapists and doesn't offer continuing education credits; it's REBT you can put to use in your own life.
Course outline
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The Basics 1. What Is REBT 2. Who Is Albert Ellis 3. The ABC Model
The Irrational Beliefs 4. The Three Basic Musts 5. Awfulizing and Anti-Awfulizing 6. Low Frustration Tolerance 7. Global Rating and Self-Downing
The Healthier Philosophy
8. Healthy and Unhealthy Negative Emotions
9. Unconditional Self-Acceptance
10. Unconditional Other-Acceptance and Unconditional Life-Acceptance
The Change Tools 11. Disputing: The D in ABCDE 12. Effective New Beliefs and Rational Coping Statements 13. Secondary Disturbance 14. Rational Emotive Imagery 15. Shame-Attacking and the Behavioral Exercises
Living It 16. REBT in Everyday Life
Bonus
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