Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy where a psychotherapist in a structured approach works with the patient by attending constrained sessions.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy where a psychotherapist in a structured approach works with the patient by attending constrained sessions.

The CBT aids patient identifies and comprehend the negative enabling explicit view of challenging conditions and responding appropriately (Dobson & Dobson, 2018). The treatment is a useful tool used alone or merged with other therapies in treating and managing mental wellness conditions like depression, eating disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. CBT is essential in addressing emotional challenges such as in the management of symptoms of psychological illness, averting relapse of psychological symptoms, treatment of mental disorders when medication treatment is not preferred, acknowledging approaches of emotions management, coping with loss and grief, solving association conflicts and learning novel strategies to communicate and effective management of chronic physical symptoms. Rational emotive behavioural therapy (REBT) is a style of therapy initiated in the 1950s by Albert Ellis (Dryden, 2017). The approach aids in detecting irrational practices, negative thoughts sequence resulting to behavioural or emotional issues such as phobias and addictive behaviors. REBT therapy acknowledge the self-defeating feelings and thoughts, challenge shrewdness of such feelings and thoughts and replace them with more productive and healthier beliefs. REBT therefore concentrates on the present duration, helping patients comprehend how unhealthy beliefs and thoughts establish emotional distress causing unproductive behaviors and actions that interrupts their routine activities.

Similarities between CBT and REBT

1. Both CBT and REBT are psychotherapy treatments and care is provided by a psychiatrist, psychologist or other competent medical provider. Psychotherapy treatment engages the application of psychological approaches especially when centered on constant personal association with adults, assisting the patient change their emotional and behavior sequences and cope with issues in preferred manner.
2. Both treatment approaches focuses on mental illness conditions. CBT engages treatment and management of mental wellness disorders like depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, sleep disorder, eating disorder, schizophrenia, dipolar disorder, sexual disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. REBT therapy manages and treats mental conditions such as anxiety, depression, severe or improper anger, guilt, and phobia.
3. CBT and REBT are practice methods assisting clients in overcoming adversity and accomplish their established social, economic and wellness goals.

Differences between REBT and CBT

1. The REBT therapy explains the philosophic grounds of emotional disturbances and disrupted cognitions making the approach robust since, when the absolutistic requirements are uprooted, the cognitive disruptions are corrected (Matweychuk, DiGiuseppe & Gulyayeva, 2019). The CBT on the other hand responds to assertiveness but fails to investigate the philosophic cause of the emotional distortions like anger.
2. Secondary disturbances. The REBT outlines the importance of secondary distortions. Patients disrupted about their disturbances is constantly a core element in endogenous, severe anxiety, depressive episodes and panic attacks. Many CBT sessions omits the secondary disturbances.
3. Unconditional self-acceptance. The REBT offers a comprehensive resolution to the self-confidence issues. The treatment teaches patients unconditional self-acceptance compared to other forms of self-rating. Majority of CBT treatment concentrates on bolstering the patient’s self-confidence through instilling positive qualities. This approach lacks to permanently boost the patient’s self-confidence level since the client can still feel low self-confidence when they perform poorly, avert risk-taking occasions, being preoccupied with certifying than performing to their capacity.
4. REBT emphasizes the discrimination of right from improper emotions, influential emotive interventions, approaches of operating directly on and with emotions and unconditional positive regard compared to CBT that encourages conditional positive regard (Dryden, 2018).

The differences in CBT and REBT affects medical practice as a counsellor since I must assess the two approaches, and select the optimal psychotherapy treatment depending on patient needs, acuteness of mental illness and the projected outcomes of each treatment.

The preferred form of psychotherapy

The preferred type of psychotherapy is the rational emotive behavioural therapy because of the following rationale;

1. REBT psychiatrics are directive and open. During the sessions, the relevant therapists may disclose past events of similar form as the patient, explain how they overcame the situation if they find it essential for patient’s recovery and education. REBT ensures a positive therapist-patient rapport, permitting the patient to provide comprehensive wellness information that aids in the establishment of appropriate therapy strategies (David et al., 2019).
2. Majority of cognitive behavioural therapist are trained in rational emotive behavioural therapy (David et al., 2019). Therefore, as a medical counsellor, I am equipped with both CBT and REBT capacity and thus selecting the preferred treatment form enables comprehensive patient care and outcomes.
3. REBT elaborates the philosophical foundation of distorted cognition and emotional disturbances, examines the secondary disturbances causing the mental wellness condition and ensures unconditional self-acceptance. Uprooting the core sources of mental disorders facilitates intensive patient recovery while unconditional self-acceptance permanently boosts the patient’s self-esteem.

Summary

Both CBT and REBT are methods of psychotherapy treatment for patients with mental wellness conditions and operates through open interactions amid psychiatrist and the client. The treatment occurs in scheduled lessons for about 45 minutes per session. Both REBT and CBT are similar since they concentrate on treatment and management of psychological wellness and illnesses, they are form of psychotherapy treatment and aids patients cope with emotional, psychological distress and accomplishing their routine activities. REBT differs from CBT since REBT focuses on the philosophical cause of the mental disorder presented, assess secondary disturbances and encourages permanent boost of patient’s self-confidence by facilitating unconditional self-acceptance. Lastly, I prefer REBT therapy for patients with mental health conditions since it encourages active and positive psychiatrist-patient association, unconditional self-confidence and examines the philosophical root and secondary stressors of reported mental conditions.