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Informationen zum Autor Windy Dryden is 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. As discussed in this book, he now refers to his single-session work as ONEplus therapy. Klappentext Managing Low Self Esteem charts Windy Dryden's work in running brief, structured, educationally-orientated, self-acceptance groups. The book is based on the principles of Rational Emotive Behaviour - an approach to counselling and psychotherapy. This approach has a philosophical position in the self which stresses a person's uniqueness, humanity, complexity and fallibility. In this way, it advocates self-acceptance rather than self-esteem. It also argues that this position can be taught and learned in a short peiod of time. Through detailed session reviews, the book shows how unconditional self-acceptance can be taught not only to psychotherapy clients, but to members of the general public. Zusammenfassung Charts Windy Dryden's work in running brief! structured! educationally orientated! self acceptance groups. This book is based on the principles of Rational Emotive Behaviour an approach to counselling and psychotherapy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Principles and preparing the ground: the situational ABCDE model of REBT; low self-esteem and the REBT view of unconditional self-acceptance; running self-acceptance groups - the role of the REBT therapist; setting up a self-acceptance group. Part 2 The therapeutic curriculum in self-acceptance groups: why self-acceptance and not self-esteem?; specifying target problems and setting goals; teaching group members; how to assess specific examples of their target problems; questioning group members; how to assess specific examples of their target problems; questioning demands! self-depreciating beliefs and their healthy alternatives; explaining the process of belief change and teaching the rational portfolio method; teaching the zig zag technique; three emotive techniques to facilitate change; the conjoint use of cognitive and behavioural techniques; more cognitive-behavioural tasks and shame-attacking exercises; distorted inferences - how to challenge these products of irrational beliefs; ending! evaluation and beyond. ...
