Irrational Beliefs and Distorted Core Beliefs

Book  Corey, G. (2017). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy (10th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning

 

 

 

Required Textbook Readings:

 

 

• • Chapter 9 – Behavioral Therapy

 

• • Chapter 10 – Cognitive Behavior Therapy

 

 

Required Multimedia:

 

 

• • Watch: The Case of Stan – Behavioral Therapy -In MindTap on Cengage site. Under Chapter 9: How do I practice what I’ve learned

 

• • Watch: The Case of Stan – Cognitive Behavior Therapy -In MindTap on Cengage site. Under Chapter 10: How do I practice what I’ve learned

 

 

Instructions:

 

 

• • To at least one peer, reflect a critical understanding of his/her post and advance the discussion with thoughtful statements surrounding to what degree you agree with him/her and why. Include at least one reference to course material.

 

• • When you begin, type the name of the person you are replying to.

 

• • Make an analysis of the other person’s work/thinking.

 

• • Support your comment with a reason, an example, or –preferably– by a reference from the material you’ve read in this course.
    • • Respond to 1 peer
    • • The expectation is that response posts will add factual information to the discussion, whether in agreement or disagreement with the peer’s original post. 
    • • 75-100 words

 

• • Reply to:

 

 

 

 

I can agree with Ellis’s assumption on REBT on the basis for emotional disturbance lays in irrational beliefs and thinking. I think I can only agree partially with Ellis on the notion that events themselves do not cause emotional and behavioral problems. I do agree that our cognitive evaluation of events can lead to emotional disturbance. Traumatic events though such as plane or car crashes, rape, being attacked or robbed are events that cannot be controlled and our cognitive evaluation can be compromised and possibly unable to fully comprehend these events in times of great stress or trauma. I can agree that our cognitions and behaviors create a “cause-and-effect” relationship (Corey, 2017, p. 271) Just this weekend in church the sermon was aimed at the story we attach to our wounds in life and how that affects our outlook on life. I do believe that we do present ourselves with the choice to respond to different events, but that is not the full reason as to why one can find themselves in emotional disturbance.

 

CB is also an introspective therapy that is aimed at catching those distorted thoughts to restructure those thoughts, to “identify dysfunctional thinking, then weigh evidence for or against that thought.”(Corey, 2017, p. 285) I can accept the notion that cognitive therapists should assist clients to almost a full extent. I do not agree with the specified questions in collaborative empiricism (Corey, 2017, p. 285) which can leave room for therapists to bring the patients to biased conclusions about their thoughts. There should be assisting in the restructuring and examination of distorted beliefs to avoid further distorted beliefs but the clients need to bring themselves to those conclusions, not have them be given to them, but collarborated on instead.

 

References:

 

Corey, G. (2017). Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy. Cengage Learning