Affirmative Therapy Theory Paper
I enjoyed reading your post. Your comments on helping the LGBTQ client change their negative attitudes regarding homonegitivity is interesting. You also mention incorporating Affirmative Therapy. What are your thoughts on using Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)? My thinking is that this theory focuses on the consequences of unhealthy versus healthy emotional responses, using the ABC model. Ellis believes that if you can help a person understand the origin of their irrational thought process, then perhaps that individual can be helped (Albert Ellis Institute, 2014). It is how a person responds to their negative situations. In the case that you illustrated, the thought for a counselor would be to rechannel the clients negative thoughts