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Fundamentals of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
Understand the basics of the essential approach to cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is a cognitive-behavioural approach to psychotherapy in which patients are taught to identify and reject irrational and damaging thought patterns and emotional responses. By emphasizing patients' control over their mental and emotional lives, it cultivates honest self-assessment and healthy emotional responses. Since its development in the 1950s, it has stood as one of the most widely used and successful forms of cognitive- behavioural therapy.
Fundamentals of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy looks to cultivate a robust foundational understanding of this essential mode of treatment. Seeking to replicate the conditions and learning patterns of an introductory seminar, it emphasizes concrete clinical applications and a continuous connection between theory and practice. The third edition of this pathbreaking guide offers expanded coverage and fully up-to-date research.
Readers of the third edition of Fundamentals of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy will also find:
* Detailed treatment of subjects including meta-emotional problem assessment, client misconceptions, and more
* Appendices including a homework skills monitoring form, training in REBT, and more
* An author with decades of experience in REBT and related forms of cognitive- behavioural therapy
Fundamentals of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy is ideal for students and researchers looking to develop a working understanding of REBT.
List of contents
About the author vii
Introduction ix
1 What you need to know about the theory of REBT to get started 1
2 What you need to know about the practice of REBT to get started 23
3 Teaching the ABCs of REBT 39
4 Distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy negative emotions 53
5 Being specific in the assessment process 71
6 Assessing C 75
7 Assessing A 83
8 Assessing B 87
9 Assessing meta-emotional problems 95
10 Goal-setting 101
11 Eliciting your client's commitment to change 113
12 Preparing your client and yourself to examine their attitudes 123
13 Helping your clients to examine their attitudes 127
14 Helping your clients to strengthen their conviction in their flexible/non-extreme attitudes 141
15 Negotiating homework assignments 153
16 Reviewing homework assignments 173
17 Dealing with your clients' misconceptions of REBT theory and practice 183
18 Using REBT in a single-session therapy format 193
19 An example of an REBT-based single session 207
Appendix I: Homework skills monitoring form 219
Appendix II: Possible reasons for not completing self-help assignments 223
Appendix III: Training in REBT 225
References 227
Index 229
About the author
Windy Dryden is an Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University of London and is in part-time independent practice. His interests include helping people at the point of need and encouraging therapists to use single-session interventions and to develop the single-session mindset that best helps them to practise SST. He refers to his own work in this area as ONEplus therapy.
