Pastoral Counseling and Cognitive Therapy using REBT

Description

Albert Ellis, the founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and what some have called the grandfather of all forms of cognitive behavior therapy, often said, “The deepest, most profound change that you can help clients achieve is to help them change their philosophy of life." St. Paul, in his second letter to the Corinthians, wrote something similar: "From now on, therefore we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new" (2 Corinthians 5:16-17).

Since one’s philosophy of life is a “way of seeing” life, the world, others, and the self, both Ellis and St. Paul are advocating a profound change in one’s “way of seeing,” in other words, one’s point of view or set of beliefs that one holds about life. Christian beliefs and practices can be incorporated into REBT/CBT to help Christian clients adopt a new “way of seeing,” so they can experience themselves as a “new creation” with fewer emotional disturbances and self-defeating behaviors. If you regularly counsel Christians, this course will teach you a model that is not only biblically based but will resonate with a Christian Worldview of how people can change.

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