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How RET is different from Aaron Beck’s Cognitive therapy?

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Ellis in RET probes the client’s behaviour and belief system by gentle questioning and sometimes challenging the irrational beliefs and negative thinking of the client.

Aaron Beck in his Cognitive therapy does not attempt to disprove the ideas held by depressed person rather the therapist and client work together to identify the individual’s faulty assumptions. Beck uses ‘pointed, but friendly questioning’ to root out depressed people’s faulty cognitions.

Ellis focuses on the client’s present circumstances to search the cause of irrational beliefs.

Aaron Beck emphasises client’s core schemata formed during childhood as dysfunctional cognitive structure causing depressive behavioural pattern.