Training in RET: Disputational strategies

Abstract

ABSTRACT:The purpose of this paper is to describe a training exercise designed to systematically develop the skill of cognitive disputation. In accomplishing this purpose, DiGiuseppe's conceptual framework for generating disputations is briefly summarized. Then the conceptual framework is applied to a single maladaptive belief of a young woman who had been sexually molested over a number of years during childhood. The application of the conceptual framework resulted in sixteen disputes for a single maladaptive belief. Additionally, several empirical evaluations of the efficacy of conceptual approach are presented. In the case of novice RET therapists, the application of the conceptual strategy resulted in a significant increase in the number of different disputes on the part of the therapists. In the case of experienced RET therapists, the application of the conceptual strategy resulted in increases in the therapists' sense of self efficacy at generating a variety of dis-

Differential Effects Between Group Counselling and Group Guidance in Conducting a ‘Coping with Stress Training Program’ for Turkish University Students

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“…To help analyze their reactions to stressors, logical, empirical and pragmatic disputational strategies developed by DiGiuseppe and colleagues (Kopec et al, 1994) were applied to the personal examples proferred by the group members. For instance, a member shared his difficulty in asking and answering questions in lectures because of his fear of being embarrassed.…”

“…Though the content and the materials were the same for both groups the role of the counsellor and application of the content differed within each group. Logical, empirical and pragmatic disputational strategies (Kopec, Beal, & DiGiuseppe, 1994) were applied within the counselling group using principles and techniques of group counselling. Activities and encounters were used during the sessions to increase the awareness of group members to the connection between their perceptions and evaluations of daily life events as stressful, and their feelings and behaviours related to these thoughts.…”

Religiously sensitive rational emotive behavior therapy: Theory, techniques, and brief excerpts from a case.

“…of irrational beliefs in creating upset, to induce clients to question the appropriateness, helpfulness, and reasonableness of upsetting irrational beliefs, and then to help clients replace upsetting beliefs with more rational, Jess upsetting beliefs and philosophies . Once clients come to understand the role of their own irrational beliefs in causing their upset, one or more of four different strategies for disputing irrational beliefs may be selected (DiGiuseppe, 1991;Kopec, Beal, & DiGiuseppe, 1994).…”

Desfusão cognitva na Terapia de Aceitação e Compromisso (ACT): o processo de mudança clínica

“…Esta estratégia foi amplamente adotada por terapeutas cognitivos e cognitivocomportamentais, que apesar da inclusão do ensino de habilidades de enfrentamento e de solução de problemas, enfatizaram estratégias de mudanças no modo de pensar de seus clientes (Dobson & Dozois, 2010). Simplificadamente, essas técnicas de reestruturação cognitiva buscam criar um ambiente colaborativo em sessão no qual terapeuta e cliente se engajam no questionamento dos pensamentos do cliente (incluindo suas crenças e esquemas subjacentes, concebidos como constructos hipotéticos importantes na teoria cognitiva) em termos de sua validade lógica e empírica para, com isso, alterar o conteúdo delas (Knapp & Beck, 2008;Kopec, Beal & DiGiuseppe, 1994;Leahy, 2006).…”