REBT Practitioner Certification - Beginner-Pro (ACCREDITED)

Trace the origins of REBT from Albert Ellis's 1955 rational therapy, through the 1961 rename to rational emotive therapy, to rational emotive behavior therapy as a standalone precursor to CBT.

The core emphasis of REBT and CBT centers on irrational vs rational beliefs, emotions and behaviors, and the abc model.

Introduce the abc model of rebt, starting from clients' consequences to identify activating events and irrational beliefs, and empower self-directed change through psychoeducational explanation.

Cultivate flexibility of thought and unconditional acceptance, apply the ABC model, challenge irrational beliefs through disputing, and empower clients to take action and own their change.

Explore distinctions on good mental health and conscious responsibility for thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Adopt flexible beliefs, pursue personal direction, and balance short-term joy with long-term happiness.

Explore the therapeutic relationship and build trust, rapport, and a space for client growth through unconditional positive regard, congruence, and the ABC model.

Apply unconditional positive regard in therapy by viewing clients beyond their behaviors and emotions, offering a nonjudgmental space that supports growth, choices, and lasting change.

Describe the REBT therapeutic relationship, emphasizing warmth, unconditional acceptance, informality, and Rogers' unconditional positive regard to support nonjudgment, space to change, and professional boundaries.

Detail how Ellis's seven principles drive therapeutic efficiency in CBT: speed, depth, pervasiveness, extensiveness, thoroughgoing techniques, progress maintenance, and prevention.

Explore the therapeutic relationship in REBT, emphasizing unconditional positive regard, unconditional acceptance, informality, congruence, and the seven K's, with a preview of the change process and ABC model.

Explore the dynamics of change in REBT, including the non-linear model of change, the ABC model, the intelligent mind, domains of disturbance, and growth in self-worth and self-esteem.

Explore the dynamics of change with unconditional acceptance, space to listen to oneself, and the therapist as a conduit guiding change in beliefs, emotions, and behaviors.

Explore the non-linear model of change, where life’s problems become opportunities to grow, not a simple learning curve, and guide clients through progress, plateaus, and relapse prevention.

Explore the transitional process of the RBOC ABC model, moving clients from their current state to a desired state by disputing irrational beliefs and setting consequential goals.

Explore the REBT thought process behind activating events, uncover how unconscious reactions arise from irrational beliefs, and learn to shift to rational, conscious choices through reflection.

Discover how the intelligent mind mediates between the emotional mind and analytical mind, challenges irrational beliefs, and forms rational, calculated choices with flexible options.

Discover your core self beyond roles and labels by writing 'I am' statements. Identify qualities like caring, loving, driven, and free to guide self growth.

REBT identifies two disturbance domains: ego-related self-esteem and overall discomfort, rooted in irrational beliefs, cognitive thought processes, and the unconscious mind that shape self-worth and life satisfaction.

Identify the difference between self-esteem and self-worth by contrasting external actions with internal values. Explore how rigid beliefs and meaning-making shape self-worth and influence behavior.

Explore how core beliefs of not good enough and not worthy shape self-worth, and learn to apply REBT insights on language, values, rules, and conscious choice to manage emotions.

Explore Freud's view of the mind—id, ego, and superego—and their clashes with the emotional, intelligent, and conscious minds within the REBT framework.

Identify and challenge common negative thinking patterns in REBT, such as should and must, overgeneralization, mind reading, and labeling, to replace irrational beliefs with rational ones.

Explore the dynamics of change, conscious responsibility, conscious choices, the ABC model, and how self-worth, ego dynamics, and consequences shape movement from current states to desired change.

Explore the consequences-first approach in the abc model, learn the three types of consequences including emotional consequences unique to human beings, and differentiate unhealthy from healthy negative emotions.

Identify the three types of consequence in REBT: emotional, behavioral, and cognitive. Learn to dispute irrational beliefs to foster rational, flexible responses and accountable actions.

Explore the three core shoulds and musts in REBT and how they shape irrational beliefs. Link emotional, behavioral, and cognitive consequences: depression, anxiety, low self-worth, overworking, catastrophizing.

Explore the distinction between healthy and unhealthy negative emotions, from depression, anxiety, and guilt to remorse and healthy anger, and learn how action drives growth in REBT.

Review the REBT consequences framework, detailing the ABC model, the emotional, behavioral, and cognitive consequences, and the three musts, while previewing activation in the next section.

Explore what creates activation by examining situational activation and critical eye activation, contrast them, and introduce the Metamora model with emphasis on info gathering and detective work.

Identify two drivers of activating events in REBT: a major life event that reshapes beliefs and installs irrational beliefs, and repeated experiences that create meaning.

Unpack how situational activation triggers emotions and how critical activation arises; dispute underlying beliefs and identify one-time or repeating events shaping meta emotional disturbance in clients.

Develop the ability to gather information from clients' language using the meta model, asking targeted questions to uncover deeper beliefs and activation patterns.

Review of activation concepts in REBT, distinguishing situational and critical activating events, the role of beliefs, and how to gather information to uncover irrational beliefs.

Explore how beliefs form and become irrational, identify musts and shoulds, and learn to dispute them using REBT language to help clients develop new rational, flexible beliefs.

Explore how the unconscious mind forms beliefs through sensory input, language, and questions, creating certainty and negative meanings, and learn to challenge irrational beliefs with empowerment and conscious questions.

Expose the three shoulds and musts that trap beliefs, explaining how chasing universal approval, fairness from others, and instant gratification fuels depression, anxiety, and unhealthy reactions in REBT practice.

Explore the first set of REBT must or should beliefs, identify personal patterns from the workbook, and learn to dispute and replace rigid beliefs with rational flexible ones.

Explore the second belief in REBT: others should treat me fairly and as I treat them, revealing how utopian expectations create rigidity and clash with real life.

Explore the 3 M's sub beliefs, including things should almost always go my way and I should must deal with all issues, and learn conscious responsibility for change.

Explore the good enough vs not good enough belief in REBT, and learn how disputing these thoughts and rebuilding self-worth can transform your life and help others.

Identify situational irrational beliefs, generalized irrational beliefs, and global beliefs, understand how they trigger anger, hurt, or depression, and learn to recognize these patterns in yourself and others.

In this lecture, learn how people perpetuate irrational beliefs through maintenance, avoidance, and compensating, and prepare to uncover them with twenty belief-defining questions in the disputing stage.

Uncover irrational beliefs using REBT techniques and the matter model, through focused questioning and disputing steps to reveal core beliefs about self, others, and the world.

Explore the ABC model of beliefs, including the must and should patterns across situational, generalized, and global levels, and learn belief discovery and disputing techniques.

Prepare clients for disputing their beliefs, introduce formulaic and creative disputing, apply logic and direct challenge, and use Socratic questioning and the meta model to change coin's rules and beliefs.

Prepare clients for disputing irrational beliefs using a psychoeducational, Socratic questioning approach, review consequences and activations, and foster conscious responsibility to explore new perspectives.

Explore cognitive dissonance and the cognitive tug of war between irrational and rational beliefs, using thought imbalance, reflection, and socratic questioning to tip the scales toward flexible, rational thinking.

Start with a formulaic disputing framework to identify rigid beliefs and test them with evidence. Then add creative disputing through humor, metaphors, and perspective shifts to foster lasting change.

Dispel irrational beliefs with direct, logical challenges grounded in solid rapport, using rational arguments and multiple strategies to help clients recognize illogical thinking.

Explore evidence based disputing in REBT by staging a courtroom drama to test irrational beliefs, gather evidence for rational beliefs, and challenge them to shift depression-related thinking.

Explore the meta model, challenging distortions, generalizations, and deletions to uncover truth behind clients' rational and irrational beliefs, using evidence-based critique in CBT practice.

Dispute deletions in the REBT meta model, including mind reading and cause and effect beliefs, with examples. Learn to challenge presuppositions and craft responses that help clients rethink emotions.

Explore the REBT meta model's focus on language, including universal quantifiers and modal operators. Learn to challenge beliefs by questioning must, should, and couldn't, and seeking evidence to the contrary.

Explore the meta model's deletions, including unspecified and comparative deletions, and learn to challenge beliefs about understanding, ease, and communication using Socratic questioning in REBT meta model Pt4.

Explore REBT's Socratic questioning as a core skill, guiding clients to dismantle irrational beliefs through clarification, challenging assumptions, evidence, alternatives and perspectives, and considering implications to build rational, flexible beliefs.

Apply REBT Socratic questioning with a printable two-page worksheet to test your belief by listing evidence for and against, challenging misinterpretations, assumptions, and alternative perspectives.

Practice REBT socratic questioning to challenge habitual beliefs and trace their origins. Assess whether the beliefs are supported by evidence and serve you in all areas of life.

Practice disputing irrational beliefs with REBT tools, including three shoulds and musts, using Socratic questioning and evidence-based, logic-based, and mental-model approaches to build skill and confidence.

Dispute irrational beliefs by uncovering the rules behind them, such as 'not good enough,' and use Socratic questions to reveal and rewrite these rules to feel good enough.

Explore how conscious and unconscious rules shape beliefs and self-worth in rational emotive behavior therapy (rebt), and learn to challenge irrational beliefs through conscious choice, external feedback, and outside-session work.

Learn to dispute irrational beliefs using formulaic and creative disputing strategies, challenge evidence with a courtroom metaphor, and build rational beliefs through the matter model, Socratic questioning, and coins rules.

Learn to replace irrational beliefs with effective rational beliefs using the ABC model's e, and explore the transitional process, levels of acceptance, and how to embed rational beliefs.

Revisit the transitional process to help clients dispute irrational beliefs, balance subconscious responses, and replace them with flexible, rational beliefs that offer options for any activating event.

Explore Albert Ellis's three levels of acceptance: self, others, and life, and learn to replace irrational beliefs with flexible, option-providing attitudes that foster growth.

Learn to perpetuate rational, effective, flexible beliefs through conscious maintenance, active engagement, and daily reflection, using practical workbook tools to guide clients and yourself.