Introduction: I will demonstrate a good knowledge and understanding focusing on REBT and CT, combining them to produce a fluid response to answer the question. Background: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a generic umbrella term for a category of therapy approach that focus on the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and actions. There are many different types of CBT. Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (Ellis’s REBT) and Cognitive Therapy (Beck’s CT) are the two main types. Current CBT practice originated in the 50s and 60s with Ellis, Lazarus (MultiModal Therapy) and Beck, building upon the earlier work of the Behaviourist movement. The basic idea of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is perhaps not so new as Epictetus, a stoic philosopher and ex-roman slave in the first century said, in the Enrichidion: "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them". Since Ellis and Beck, whilst standard CBT has evolved somewhat other approaches have arisen and developed. These have sometimes initially been for particular client groups. CBT can now include a variety of therapeutic approaches known as the ‘third wave’ , any of which can be incorporated into a course of therapy, or used as stand-alone therapies:
Cognitive Therapy Rational Emotive Therapy
Mindfulness Therapy - developed to reduce the number of relapses in patients with major depression. MBCT uses psychoeducation and encourages the patients to practice mindfulness meditation Acceptance and commitment Therapy - psychoeducation about key mechanisms, exercises in mindfulness and cognitive defusion. Behaviour Therapy - method for treating depression and other mental disorders. Dialectical Therapy - originally developed for parasuicidal patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD).Modifications have now been developed for