The ABC or “Cognitive” Model of Emotions and Behavior presented by Dr. Aldo Pucci, president of the National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists and founder of the Rational Living Therapy Institute. Think you can’t help how you feel and act? Think again. Learn how our emotions actually work from an expert in cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: The ABCs of Emotions — How Our Emotions Actually Work
June 19th, 2010 by Panic Away Administrator Leave a reply »
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nice vid, what is the song and the beggining and ending ?? Thanks
No it just means you are a all or nothing thinker duuhh
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Since breastfeeding helps shrink the uterus to its original size, … and also learned behavior for both mother and baby. Breastfeeding can be mastered with the proper guidance …
@ironjohnlad Example: A man becomes extremely angry because he sincerely believes his wife has been cheating on him. He investigates it and discovers his belief was dead wrong. She has not been cheating and his anger instantly vanishes. The anger was obviously caused by his THINKING?! But thoughts don’t cause feelings?! Gotcha
Dr. Pucci – It would be great and much appreciated if you could speak to some of the common misconceptions about learned vs. not learned behaviors. In other words, point out some of the common behaviors many people believe are not learned but actually are learned.
@ironjohnlad You will find that the rebuttals you just sent me are both wrong if you do some research into it. Ask Dr. Pucci if you need to. I personally don’t have time to continue with this discussion.
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(1) Any nurse at a maternity ward will attest to fact that infants have to learn how to breastfeed. Some just learn quicker than others.
(2) Baby’s will not initially fear a lion’s attack since they haven’t learned about dangerous animals yet. However, instinctual startle reaction may occur if lion makes loud sounds.
(3) Not all mother fear for their child’s safety. Some THINK differently and may even harm or kill their baby’s themselves.
@ironjohnlad (1) mother fearing for her child’s safety (2) fearing a lion’s attack (3) breastfeeding are all most certainly learned behaviors/responses.
The key is that some thoughts are so well known/practiced that they occur instantaneously, giving the impression that no thinking occured and that the stimulus caused the reaction.
Livenowdoing – i agree with your statements. However, on the front line it’s very difficult to encourage clients to do what you advocate. Like you said, it is the medium of masters. CBT reaches out to the masses as it is socially constructed rather than culturally, like buddhism. Unfortunately, many people are unable to turn on to buddhism because their lives are too intwined which social constructs. Besides, therapy needs a model and after all CBT is based on buddhism principles, fundamentally.
Great Structure for therapy that has proven results in CBT. My clients reqest my specifically me because of the ABC’s technique.
I never said anything about believing that my thinking is me. We are all people that think, feel, and do things. But we are not what we think, feel, do. Thinking is merely a part of consciousness just as your hand is a part of your body.
@driven6996 Thinking is the inner voice you hear in your head. It thinks it is you. You accept it as you because you don’t know any different. Some call it the ego. Enlightened masters reach a place where they just know without thinking. They often say that they are not thinking of what they will say, first, before they speak. They just speak. That inner voice becomes quiet for them, finally. This inner voice also is the one that has learned emotions. It is the great impostor.
Knowing Pucci’s RLT down pat enabled me to do great CBT presentations in front of the class nearly every semester when I was in my last year of graduate school for psych. I highly recommend you continue down the RLT path.
Also, I’m fairly certain that most spiritual/meditative practices help people to eliminate thoughts about stressors, desires, negative events, etc. rather than attempting to eliminate thinking all together, which is biologically impossible. So, in a way, these approaches are a great adjunct to any CBT based therapy.
You stated, “If thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors why don’t we just eliminate thinking? Keep in mind that thoughts also cause all the good emotional feelings and behaviors that we experience. Therefore, the goal is to monitor our thoughts so that we can feel and act in desirable ways as often as possible.
very good
He is indeed one of the greatest speaker in the history of CBT presentation seminars. The guy is sharp and i’m sure his book should be a very interesting one to read
@livenowdoing I’m impressed that you gave my comment such consideration. It is my experience that you can stop thinking. Zen masters, yogis and Buddist monks are all able to free themselves from thinking to varying degrees. They accomplish this after years of meditation and guidance from masters. I don’t meditate, but I experience freedom from thinking much of the time. When it does pop up I can look at it and it will shut up. Our true nature is an inner knowing that just knows.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments. Actually, we cannot eliminate thinking. We think about something every conscious minute of every day. Even the spiritual practices cannot eliminate thinking. What you just expressed are your thoughts.
As a matter of fact, we teach in RLT that the statement, “I feel that” actually means, “I think that” because there is no actual emotional feeling as “that the thinking that thinks…”
Every action (except a basic reflex) is preceded by a thought.
If thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors why don’t we just eliminate thinking? Many spiritual practices suggest this is the solution to suffering. If we continue treating the problem (thoughts), people may be better able to cope with life, but that means life is no more than coping? It is my feeling that the thinking that thinks it is us is an evolutionary mistake; an error our “over sized brained” ancestors made around the time of our change from hunter-gatherer to agriculture.
thanks for the information. It has helped my understanding for a graduate assignment I am currently working on,
Well done. I finally decided to buy his book “Feel the Way You Want to Feel … No Matter What! “, which covers the cognative-behavior techniques in much more detail. It has a lot of useful tools that everyone should read by the time they graduate high school. Extremely well thought out book.
This guy is really sharp. And if that is him playing the guitar
also a great guitarist! How he can condense so much information in less than ten minuites is astounding. The world would be a much better place if people could really espouse
cognitive behavioral therapy and thinking.