Albert Ellis was one of the most influential psychologists in the development of theories applied to the practice of clinical psychology and psychotherapy, known for having planned and implemented the therapeutic model known as Behavioral Emotional Rational Therapy (TREC), which has followers and followers. In Europe and the United States, what do you have to say about irrational beliefs?Find out below.
Behavioral Emotional Rational Therapy or TREC is based on human beings interpreting all the information that comes, both from the external environment (social context, situations, events) and from the internal environment (feelings, emotions, sensations). All are stimuli that act as triggering belief events (or background). To explain why some people experience certain events as a disaster and others do not, Albert Ellis developed the following model:
- A (internal or external events)? B (“beliefs” or beliefs: interpretive filter)?C (emotional consequences of performances).
Throughout her years as a psychologist and researcher, Ellis has concluded that we all shared a series of very rigid limiting beliefs that would be responsible for our emotional and psychological discomfort. The beliefs Ellis identified as the most common are:
“There are three monsters that don’t allow us to move forward: I have to do it right, you have to treat me well, and the world must be easy. “Albert Ellis?
We will not go into the details of each of these ideas, but it is very important to note that having one or more of these beliefs in an ingrained way is at the root of one of the main problems reported by people who come to psychological counseling: frustration and feeling of not being able to face situations. That is, when one of these beliefs is not satisfied or “satisfied”, people with little tolerance for frustration and a strong attachment to their beliefs do not support what is happening, and all of this creates great psychological suffering. .
When a person interprets his reality through irrational beliefs, he ends up becoming someone who does not feel happy, because without realizing it, he filters everything that lives through those inappropriate beliefs, that is, it is the beliefs that lead to person to classify everything. That happens because it frustrates him or not, and it is complicated, because the beliefs are wrong.
Thus, the problem arises that is based on the expansion of the person’s feeling of frustration when one of these beliefs is not fulfilled or verified with reality, people increase the daily setbacks or inconveniences they may have, they are also very demanding with themselves and their Hopes that everything is exactly as they think and, as these are very rigid approaches , very often they experience unpleasant emotions.
That is, irrational beliefs are activated and used to interpret experience, understand the past, and anticipate the future. Also, as a result of the use of irrational beliefs, are there people who develop “alarmism”?(Everything is terrible, dramatic), or they condemn others or themselves with negative adjectives. The difference between these two problems arising from irrational beliefs is the main feeling that the person feels.
People with this behavior have a very low tolerance to frustration, difficulty adapting to change and are not psychologically flexible (they want everything in a certain way and do not accept that something is different from what they expect). For Ellis, any emotional disorder is linked to one of 11 irrational beliefs, which is why the goal of therapy will be to detect and modify both the erroneous conclusions and the dogmatic and absolutist beliefs behind it.
To free himself, Albert Ellis has created a series of specific psychological techniques that can be grouped according to what people are trying to change, so emotional behavioral therapy uses cognitive, emotional and behavioral techniques, as we’ll see below.
“If the Martians found out what we thought of humans, they would die of laughter. “Albert Ellis?
Finally, it’s important to note that this sense of frustration and inability to manage problems has a solution, if you feel identified or identified you can consult a psychologist who works with rational behavioral emotional therapy. The first step is to find out, what is the belief behind every moment. So you can start discussing these ideas with yourself, put them to the test and try to change them.