RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (Albert Ellis in 1950’s) OUTLINE: Ø Introduction Ø What is REBT? Ø Principles of REBT Ø Techniques of REBT Ø Effectiveness of REBT Ø Major Insights of REBT Ø How REBT is different from CBT? Ø Limitations of REBT INTRODUCTION: REBT stands for RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIORAL…

WHAT IS STRESS AND HOW TO COPE WITH IT? STRESS: Stress is a rection to the situations when a person feels anxious, felling, emotion. There a re two types of stress. POSITIVE STRESS NEGATIVE STRESS • Positive stress It is also called EUSTRESS, the stress that is positive in nature. Like we…

WHAT ARE PERSONALITY DISORDERS? PERSONALITY DISORDERS: Personality disorders are “long-term patterns of behaviour that are different from what is expected”. This pattern of behaviour starts due to late adolescence and causes distress and problems in functioning. Without treatment, personality disorders can cause serious problems or illness and can be long-lasting. Personality…

What is psychology? The study of MIND and BEHAVIOR. According to APA: The study of mind, how it works, and how it affects the behaviors. HISTORY: In a philosophical context, psychology was around thousands of years ago in ancient Greek, Egypt, India, Persia, and China. In 387 BCE, Plato suggested that the…

Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development Erik Erikson was an ego psychologist who developed the most popular theories of development. While his theory was impressed by the work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, Erikson’s theory focused on the psychosocial development rather than psychosexual stages of Freud. …

If money doesn’t make you happy, then you probably aren’t spending it right? Give your opinion. In my opininon, if money can make me happy, than there is also a possibility that it can also make me sad. Because there are always two sides of a picture, one is white…

DIMENSIONS OF PERSONALITY: (BFM): Personality refers to ‘’the individual differences in pattern of thinking, characteristics, feeling and ways of behavior.’’ Also we can say ‘’that the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others.’’ Dimension of personality also termed as the ‘’big five personality model BFM’’. This model…

PERSPECTIVES OF PERSONALITY: The study of personality is one of the favorite and major topics of psychologists in psychology. Many personality theories are present, and most of the major ones divided into the four major perspectives. Each of these perspectives of personality is trying to describing the different patterns of personality…

COUNTERTRANSFERENCE: The process of countertransference was first defined by Sigmund Freud in 1910. DEFINITION: And this phenomenon is defined as ‘’ the redirection of a psychotherapist’s feelings towards a client’’ or in other words we can say that ‘’therapist’s emotional entanglement with client.’’ *It is totally a unconcious process, therapists are…