Compare/Contrast Ellis’s and Beck’s Approach to Therapy.
What will be an ideal response?
Beck’s approach to therapy has been simply labeled cognitive therapy. Although he developed his theory independently of Ellis, the two exchanged ideas. Both approaches are action oriented, and both focus on changing people’s negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs. A major difference between these two therapists is that cognitive therapy maintains that each disorder has its own typical content or cognitive specificity. The cognitive profiles for clients suffering from depression, anxiety, and panic disorder are quite different, and therefore, the therapist uses different techniques in treating them. Conversely, REBT does not view disorders as having cognitive themes but instead focuses on the “musts” and “shoulds” that are believed to be at the foundation for all disorders. Moreover, the role of the therapist also differs in Ellis’s REBT and Beck’s cognitive therapy. In REBT, the therapist is highly directive and confrontational. Beck uses a Socratic dialogue approach with open-ended questions designed to get clients to reflect on their own actions and thoughts. Cognitive therapy encourages clients to discover their own misconceptions about their thoughts, whereas REBT therapists use a process of rational disputation. The therapist works to persuade clients that some of their beliefs are irrational and dysfunctional.
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