Abstract
The exploratory research on which this chapter has been based set out to develop an initial framework and categorization scheme for understanding patients’ initial doubts, reservations, and objections to the ABCs of REBT and their application. Sixty patients were asked to write down their doubts following a pre-therapy “Introduction to REBT” session. Subsequently, an emergent content analysis was carried out to identify main themes. The content analysis revealed five general categories, of which the two largest ones concerned theoretical doubts about the ABC model and doubts about putting the ABC model into practice. Further subcategorization revealed a variety of concerns that related to these categories. For example, a large proportion of doubts about putting the ABC model into practice were subcategorized as concerning the perceived difficulty of doing so. In turn, this subcategory contained further subcategories of difficulty-related beliefs.
This chapter is based on the study of Dryden, W., Hurton, N., Malki, D., Manias, P., & Williams K. (2008). Patients’ initial doubts, reservations and objections to the ABC’s of REBT and their application. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 26, 63–68.
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Notes
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While I now refer to LFT as discomfort intolerance, I will use “LFT” here since this was the term used in the research.
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While I now refer to full preferences as flexible beliefs, I will use the term “full preferences” here since this was the term used in the research.
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While I now refer to HFT as discomfort tolerance, I will use “HFT” since this was the term used in the research.
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The initial sample comprised 60 patients, but one patient requested that their data be removed from the research.
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Dryden, W. (2013). How Clients Conceptualize the ABC Framework. In: The ABCs of REBT Revisited. SpringerBriefs in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5734-3_2
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