Effect of Ellis' Work on Clinical Research and Training

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"Although all cognitive therapists are in debt to Ellis for his contributions, his work did not have as great an effect as Beck's work on clinical research and training. This may be due to a number of factors: first, Ellis was never part of an academic or medical school training facility, thereby lacking the influence that others might have; second, Ellis's model is a general model that seems to reduce all of psychopathology to a few cognitive distortions and shoulds. In contrast, Beck's model allows us to look at specific cognitive distortions and schemas for each diagnostic category-- a factor that is of considerable importance to a theory of psychopathology; third, Ellis's work seldom draws on the considerable research on cognitive and social psychology, whereas Beck's model is more consistent with and often more derived from current research and theory in psychology; and, fourth, because of the comprehensive nature of Beck's model, Beck's theory and therapy appears to be more integrative of other models than Ellis's approach (see Alford & Beck, in press). Despite these differences, Ellis and his colleagues continue to have considerable influence in the field of cognitive-behavior therapy."

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