REBT is a cohesive self-help theory for managing our emotions and behaviors, which was created and refined over Albert Ellis’s 60-year clinical career. At first glance, it seems like a straightforward approach, chock-full of practical ideas to implement. Although this is true, effective use of REBT requires an accurate understanding of its core ideas and strategies. For example, REBT is a cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of deeper-level cognitions, referred to as basic attitudes. REBT targets two types of attitudes for change. It targets rigid attitudes and extreme secondary derivatives, which follow from these rigid attitudes.
REBT is A Distinctive Form of CBT with Unique Advantages
REBT helps people modify their rigid and extreme attitudes to produce adaptive functioning in adversity. Like other forms of cognitive behavior therapy, REBT teaches people to change their thinking. However, you need to appreciate the distinctive components of this versatile theory of self-therapy. People often do not understand REBT accurately and confuse its essential ideas with other related CBT therapies.
Avoid Initially Targeting Your Inferences and Hunches While Striving for Healthy Negative Emotions
People sometimes target inferences, private hunches, or automatic thoughts extracted from the observable data of a situation, instead of the deeper, rigid, and extreme attitudes. People frequently think that we in REBT are trying to help people lessen their emotional disturbance instead of assisting people to adopt flexible and non-extreme attitudes that allow them to have healthy negative emotions. The types of thoughts emphasized in REBT and the healthy negative emotions we emphasize are essential points of understanding needed to do productive self-therapy.
Learn How to Examine and Modify Unhealthy Attitudes
People also often do not accurately understand the process of disputing and examining their rigid and extreme attitudes, and automatically jump to creating an alternative attitude. Furthermore, people develop healthy attitudes that either do not match the rigid and extreme attitudes underpinning their emotional disturbance or create ineffective or partial attitudes. These errors can result in the individual attempting self-therapy, yet struggling to achieve adequate emotional or behavioral change given their effort at self-help.
Understand the Foundational Ideas of the Tool for Maximal Leverage
Like any tool, the artisan must first learn how to use it properly before they can solve a problem with their tool. REBT allows humans to face life’s difficulties effectively and flourish. REBT can bring out the best in the individual who takes the time to develop an accurate understanding of it. To this end, Dr. Windy Dryden and I will offer a five-hour masterclass on Saturday, May 24th at 10 AM in New York, open to everyone, not just professional clinicians. Helping people learn the foundational ideas and strategies is the initial step in overcoming the human inborn tendency to disturb ourselves and defeat our ends. This masterclass promises to be beneficial because it will combine four didactic presentations, a demonstration by Dr. Dryden with a volunteer, and a question-and-answer period at the end of the day, where he and I will answer attendees’ questions and clarify important ideas. You can learn accurately about REBT and its distinctive features through books, recorded audio and video, and live didactic presentations. A multimethod approach to learning REBT will likely lead to the best results in your self-therapy journey. We hope you can join us for a day that promises to be highly informative for all individuals, professionals, or non-professionals, seeking an accurate understanding of this powerful system of ideas.
In this five-hour class, open to nonprofessionals and professionals in mental health counseling, two experts in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Dr. Windy Dryden and Dr. Walter J. Matweychuk, will present the foundational concepts and key self-help strategies of REBT. Attendees will learn how to apply this information to navigate life’s frustrations, losses, failures, and other problems of everyday living. This is an educational experience, not a therapeutic service.
Note: All times shown below are for the Eastern Time Zone (New York City)
Masterclass Agenda
REBT’s Distinctive ABC Theory of Emotional Disturbance
10:00 AM – 10:50 AM by Dr. Windy. Dryden
Understand the role of implicit attitudes in creating self-defeating emotional and behavioral reactions to adversity.
Distinguishing Between Healthy and Unhealthy Attitudes
11:00 AM – 11:50 AM by Dr. Walter J. Matweychuk
Learn how to differentiate healthy attitudes to adversity that promote emotional well-being from unhealthy attitudes that underpin emotionally disturbed and self-defeating responses.
Lunch Break 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Healthy vs. Unhealthy Emotional Reactions
12:30 PM – 1:20 PM by Dr. Windy Dryden
Explore the differences between healthy (self-helping) and unhealthy (self-defeating) emotional and behavioral reactions to adversity
Strategies for Effective Self-Therapy
Learn the foundational strategy for examining and transforming unhealthy attitudes into healthy ones, promoting self-helping emotions and behaviors.
1:30 PM – 2:20 PM by Dr. Walter J. Matweychuk
Live Demonstration of REBT with a Volunteer
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM by Dr. Windy Dryden
Ask the Experts
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
by Dr. Windy Dryden & Dr. Walter J. Matweychuk
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cost of registering for this event?
$49.00 (includes Attendance and PDF Slides of Event)
$69.00 (includes Attendance, PDF Slides, PLUS Video Recording of Event)
$69.00 (access to the Recording plus PDF slides with NO attendance)
Is this live event going to be held on Zoom?
This live event is being held on Zoom.
Is this a therapeutic or educational masterclass?
This masterclass is not a therapy session. It is an educational masterclass designed to provide a foundational understanding of the principles and strategies of this self-help, psychoeducational approach to emotional well-being.
Why should nonprofessionals attend this masterclass?
REBT is a practical approach to emotional well-being and personal growth that is easy to understand and can be applied to various emotional and behavioral challenges. It also assists in removing obstacles to self-actualization and personal development.
Why should mental health professionals attend this masterclass?
REBT is a unique form of cognitive behavior therapy that offers distinct advantages over other related CBT approaches. Additionally, there is often confusion regarding recent advancements in REBT, which can equip professionals with innovative strategies to support their clients better.
Will a certificate of attendance be provided?
A certificate of attendance will be provided.
Will continuing education credits be provided for mental health professionals who attend?
