REBT Techniques for Treatment of Depression and Suicidal Thoughts

What is REBT? 

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is a short-term form of psychotherapy that helps you identify self-defeating thoughts and feelings, challenge the rationality of those feelings, and replace them with healthier, more productive beliefs.  REBT works to help the client challenge, dispute, and question negative emotions, behaviours, and thoughts and transform your more irrational beliefs into rational and self-constructive thoughts.  It works exceedingly well in treating depression, suicidal thoughts, low esteem, and other cognitive distortions like recovery from sexual abuse, panic attacks, panic disorder, Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD), social phobias, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder(OCD), and Eating Disorder.  

How is it Different from CBT?

 While CBT and REBT are based on common concepts, a lot of differences exist between them.  There are wide differences with respect to Philosophical Foundation, Secondary Disturbance, Self-Acceptance, Negative Emotions, Inappropriate Anger, Relation between Client and the Therapist, Nature of the Therapy & Therapeutic Techniques.  A trained therapist uses either of the techniques as per the specific needs of the patient.  

What is the Importance of this Course?

The WHO has cautioned that depression is a common mental disorder and globally more than 264 million people of all ages suffer from depression which has now become a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease.  Especially when long-lasting and with moderate or severe intensity, depression may become a serious health condition. It can cause the affected person to suffer greatly and function poorly at work, at school, and in the family. At its worst, depression can lead to suicide. Close to 800 000 people die due to suicide every year. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in 15-29-year-olds.  Although there are known, effective psychotherapies for mental disorders, between 76% and 85% of people in low- and middle-income countries receive no treatment for their disorder.  It is therefore important to spread awareness of the mental disease and prevent its aggravation through timely intervention. 

 How will this Course Help You?

This course attempts to unravel the unique concepts of REBT Techniques in applying them for the treatment of certain mental illness types. Taking this REBT course will help individuals learn essential REBT techniques to tackle their daily life issues as well as manage their unpleasant emotions. It will help individuals to identify and rationalize their illogical beliefs and thinking patterns constructively. It will aid students to point out their illogical beliefs and rationalize them constructively. It will help couples to question the rationality of their thoughts and beliefs and see things from a different perspective in order to maintain good and long-lasting relations with each other. It will enable employees to recognize their unrealistic thoughts related to work and co-workers, and rationalize them to avoid issues like job stress, interpersonal issues, lack of productivity, and so forth. This course is of great help for mental health practitioners, therapists, and psychologists to gain an insight into REBT and its techniques specifically for the treatment of depression and suicidal thoughts. It will also help community workers or the ones working to help covid-19 affected patients, to understand the basics of REBT and apply them in their respective fields to ensure the effectiveness of diagnosis and treatment.

 It is a beginner-level course where you can easily grasp the concepts and the methodologies in simple steps. The teaching style is simple and easy so that the students can easily grasp and digest the subject. The instructor for this course is Najwa Bashir, a counseling Psychologist who has made several courses on psychotherapies.  The teaching style is simple and easy so that the students can easily grasp and digest the subject.  The instructor makes the students grasp the concepts step by step and guide them to complex areas of learning.  You can complete this Beginner’s Course on ‘REBT for Treating Depression and Suicidal Thoughts’ at your own time and pace.  You can easily complete the course in 10 days by completing each section in one day and taking up the next section the next day. It is ideal for first-time learners who have no idea of REBT Techniques.

What does this Course contain?

The course is divided into 5 sections, with one being an introduction video and the 4 sections being lessons. The sections are replete with video lectures & Demo Videos in MP4 version, Self-Help Worksheets from well-reputed websites, reference articles, DBT Manuals and Psychology Dictionary.  This course is not a substitute for university-approved courses but it acts as an aid for quicker learning.

For Whom This Course is Meant? 

• This course is for first-time Learners, Students, Health Workers, HR Executives, Parents, Community Workers & those interested to know about REBT, its benefits, and the process to transform people’s lives. 
• This course is not for Professionals, Teachers, and those already in the field of REBT Therapy.