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.
About the author
Introduction
1. What you need to know about the theory of rational emotive behavior therapy to get started
2. What you need to know about the practice of rational emotive beahvior therapy to get started
3. Teaching the ABC's of REBT
4. Distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy negative emotions
5. Being specific in the assessment process
6. Assessing C
7. Assessing A
8. Assessing B
9. Assessing meta-emotional problems
10. Goal-setting
11. Eliciting your client's commitment to change
12. Preparing your client and yourself to examine their attitudes
13. Helping your clients to examine their attitudes
14. Helping your clients to stregthen their conviction in their flexible/non-extreme attitudes
15. Negotiating homework assignments
16. Reviewing homework assignments
17. Dealing with your clients' misconceptions of REBT theory and practice
18. Using REBT in a single-session therapy format
19. An exmaple of REBT-based single-session therapy
Appendix I: Homework skills monitoring form
Appendix II: Possible reasons for not completing self-help assignments
Appendix III: Training in rational emotive behavior therapy
References
Index
Windy Dryden, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He was the first Briton to be accredited as an REBT therapist by the Albert Ellis Institute and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and the Albert Ellis Institute. He has authored or edited over 260 books on REBT and the broader field of psychotherapy and counselling.
