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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by nutritional guidance [People with a table of food]

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offered up endlessly and without prompt by grandmother's around the world..

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What is rational emotive behavior therapy.... here are the potential answers

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....Well rational emotive behavior sounds a

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bit like an oxymoron no because there's definitely rational behavior like say [Spock appears]

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seeing an empty jar of peanut butter in the cupboard and rather than freaking

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out deciding instead to just dump some jam on your toast right and then there's

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the more emotive behavior like going on a peanut butter craving fueled tirade to [Man searches cupboard for peanut butter]

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discover exactly who decided that it was appropriate to put the empty jar back in

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the cupboard in the first place so you need to buy a new one at Safeway the next [Man shopping in Safeway]

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time you were there mm-hmm so what exactly does rational emotive behavior

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therapy or REBT do well based on the name alone we can safely assume it

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doesn't provide nutritional guidance even if some irrational emotional [Man holding a cake]

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behavior happens to manifest itself in the form of say eating an entire triple

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chocolate cake in one sitting and unless the rational emotive behavior we're

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talking about involves rationalizing a weird internalized crush you may or may [Pictures of a family and baby appears]

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not have on one of your parents which thankfully it doesn't then the very

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Freud sounding answer involving the super-ego doesn't fit either and the

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whole idea about self actualization makes us think of Maslow who makes us [Man thinking of Maslow]

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think of his hierarchy of needs not REBT..As for D) there's nothing inherently

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wrong with the idea of visualizing a better life for yourself but our answer [Man thinking of himself on a beach]

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is looking for something concrete that affects behavior not something that well

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it sounds like it belongs on Oprah... Developed by Albert Ellis REBT helps

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patients see the irrationality of their thought patterns in an effort to improve

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them it relies on the idea that people want to be happy and it's not specific [Two boys look at a half empty glass of milk]

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events that make people unhappy but the way in which we think about these

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events... change the thought process change your life one key aspect of REBT

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however is the ability to actually identify irrational thought processes [Man with 14 jars of peanut butter in shopping cart]

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which well some are better at doing than others...

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you

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