Abstract
In the previous chapter, I presented and discussed the errors and confusions that a sample of authors of counseling and psychotherapy textbooks made when discussing the ABCs of REBT. None of these authors was an REBT therapist in good standing, and while it may be assumed that REBT therapists would be accurate when they taught REBT’s ABC framework to others, this needs to be investigated rather than taken as read.
While I know the identities of the therapists who agreed to take part in this study, they shall remain anonymous since I did not inform them that they would be named in the study when I invited them to participate. I named the authors in the previous study because their work is in the public arena.
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As this book is being published in North America, I refer to this geographical region as “home” even though I am from England!
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I discussed whether or not this is an irrational belief in the final bullet item in the section above entitled “Confusion about the nature of an irrational belief.”
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This latter statement is a rational belief but is far too general.
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This latter statement is also a rational belief but is again far too general.
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In this section, I will discuss this issue with respect to partial and full self-acceptance beliefs. The same points are relevant to partial and full other-acceptance and life-acceptance beliefs.
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As I showed earlier, this therapist provides two different As throughout his example (i.e., fainting and acting foolishly). I will take the first of these in correcting the “pantomime horse” rational belief.
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I have assumed that anger in these examples is unhealthy.
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Dryden, W. (2013). How REBT Therapists 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_4
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