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Therapy Wiki — Master Index

Frameworks

• REBT — Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
• CBT — Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• ACT — Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• MBCT — Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
• CFT — Compassion-Focused Therapy
• TEAM-CBT — Testing, Empathy, Agenda-Setting, Methods

People

• Albert Ellis
• Aaron Beck
• Steven Hayes
• Zindel Segal
• Paul Gilbert
• David Burns
• Maor Katz
• Michael J. Christensen
• Windy Dryden
• Raymond DiGiuseppe
• Mark Terjesen
• Kristene Doyle
• Tony Rousmaniere
• Alexandre Vaz

Concepts

REBT Core Concepts

• ABC Model
• Inference Theme — Personal meaning perceived in an adversity; determines which emotional problem arises
• Personal Domain — People, objects, and ideas that have personal significance
• Healthy Negative Emotions — Functional emotional responses to adversity (HNEs)
• Irrational Beliefs — Outdated terminology; see Rigid and Extreme Attitudes
• Rational Beliefs — Outdated terminology; see Flexible and Non-Extreme Attitudes

Attitudes (The Four Core Types)

• Rigid Attitudes — Demands that things must be a certain way
• Extreme Attitudes — Exaggerated evaluations (awfulising, unbearability, devaluation)
• Flexible Attitudes — Preferences that things be a certain way (non-rigid)
• Non-Extreme Attitudes — Realistic evaluations (non-awfulising, bearability, acceptance)

Other Core Concepts

• Awfulizing and Demandingness
• Discomfort Intolerance — See Unbearability Attitudes
• Global Evaluation of Self — See Devaluation Attitudes
• Unconditional Self-Acceptance
• Three-Domain Framework — Ego, comfort, and achievement domains of personal significance

Emotional Problems and Healthy Alternatives

• Anxiety vs. Concern
• Depression vs. Sadness
• Guilt vs. Remorse
• Unhealthy Anger vs. Healthy Anger
• Shame vs. Disappointment
• Hurt vs. Sorrow
• Unhealthy Jealousy vs. Healthy Jealousy
• Unhealthy Envy vs. Healthy Envy
• Unhealthy Regret vs. Healthy Regret

Cognitive Distortions (The Ten Burns Distortions)

• All-or-Nothing-Thinking — Viewing things in absolute black-and-white categories
• Overgeneralization — Treating a single failure as a never-ending pattern
• Emotional-Reasoning — Reasoning from feelings as if they were facts
• Should-Statements — Rigid imperatives that create guilt and anger
• Labeling — Capturing a person with a single negative label
• Fortune-Telling — Making arbitrary negative predictions about the future
• Magnification-and-Minimization — Exaggerating negatives, minimizing positives
• Mental Filtering — (see Cognitive Distortion)
• Discounting the Positive — (see Cognitive Distortion)
• Mind Reading — (see Cognitive Distortion)

CBT-Specific Concepts

• Automatic Thoughts — Spontaneous thoughts that drive emotional responses
• Perfectionism — Rigid, unrealistic standards tied to self-worth
• Approval-Seeking — Compulsive need for others’ validation
• Do-Nothingism — Procrastination and behavioral avoidance

Other Concepts

• Acceptance
• Cognitive Distortion
• Deliberate Practice
• Resistance
• Outcome Resistance
• Process Resistance
• Therapeutic Alliance
• Transdiagnostic Approach

Techniques

REBT Techniques

• Psychoeducation About REBT
• Psychoeducation About Dysfunctional vs. Functional Emotions
• Agreement on Session Goals
• Inference vs. Belief Clarification — Distinguishing inferences (A) from attitudes (B)
• Clarifying Inferences From Irrational Beliefs
• Assessing Irrational Beliefs
• Prioritising Irrational Beliefs
• Teaching the Belief-Consequence Connection
• Functional Disputation
• Empirical Disputation
• Semantic Disputation
• Constructing Rational Alternative Beliefs
• Collaborative Homework Development

TEAM-CBT Techniques

• David-Burns-Key-Assessment-Questions — Strategic questions for assessment and resistance work
• Testing-Measurement
• Empathy-Training
  • Disarming
  • Thought-Empathy
  • Feeling-Empathy
  • Stroking (coming soon)
  • I-Feel-Statements (coming soon)
  • Inquiry (coming soon)
• Changing-Gears-Invitation
• Getting-Focused-Specificity
• Anticipating-Resistance-Conceptualization (coming soon)
• Magic-Button-Outcome-Resistance-Step-1
• Magic-Button-Process-Resistance-Step-2
• Boosting-Motivation-Dangling-the-Carrot (coming soon)
• Capturing-Negative-Thoughts (coming soon)
• Cognitive-Role-Playing (coming soon)
• Processing-Learning (coming soon)
• Assigning-Homework (coming soon)

CBT Core Techniques

• Thought-Records — Identifying and examining automatic thoughts
• Daily-Mood-Log — Self-monitoring tool for capturing emotions, thoughts, and identifying patterns (also called Daily Mood Journal in Burns’ formulation)

General CBT/Therapeutic Techniques

• Positive-Reframing — Identifying positive values/strengths expressed in negative thoughts
• Double-Standard-Technique — Applying self-compassion by imagining how you’d respond to a friend

Questions / Synthesis

• gaps — Running list of unstubbed concepts
• How do TEAM-CBT and REBT conceptualise healthy vs unhealthy emotions — Cross-framework comparison of emotion theory