Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions aims to answer the 50 most frequently asked questions on REBT by trainees, novice practitioners, and clients themselves.
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions aims to answer the 50 most frequently asked questions on REBT by trainees, novice practitioners, and clients themselves.
This concise and readable book is divided into four parts, with each focusing on responding to questions about different elements of REBT from theory to practice and applications:
Part 1: The Nature of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in Context
Part 2: The Practice of REBT
Part 3: Miscellaneous Questions
Part 4: FAQs from Clients
The book will appeal to a wide range of counsellors and psychotherapists. It will provide trainee and novice therapists with answers to some of their own questions, give trainers and supervisors helpful responses to frequently asked questions in training and aid all levels of practitioners in answering questions from clients.
Introduction Part 1: The Nature of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in
Context Question
1. What is Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy? Question
2.
Why Have You Changed Some of REBTs Basic Terminology? Question
3. What Is
Meant by the ABC Framework in REBT? Moreover, Isnt This Framework Overly
Simplistic? Question
4. What Is the Difference Between Healthy and Unhealthy
Negative Emotions? Question
5. How Can a Therapist and a Client Know if a
Clients Negative Emotion is Healthy or Unhealthy? Question
6. What Are the
Differences Between Rigid/Extreme Attitudes and Flexible/Non-Extreme
Attitudes in REBT? Question
7. What Is Ego-Based and Non-Ego-Based
Disturbance in REBT, How Are They Different, and How Are They Clinically
Valuable for the Practitioner? Question
8. Why Does REBT Not Advocate Helping
Clients to Raise Their Self-Esteem? Question
9. What Is the Difference
Between Helping People Feel Better and Get Better? Question
10. What Are the
Differences Between Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive
Behaviour Therapy? Question
11. Is REBT a Transdiagnostic Approach to
Therapy? Question
12. What Advantages Does REBT Have Which Would Make a
Client Seek This Form of Psychotherapy? Question
13. What Does REBT Mean to
Help Clients Become Less Disturbable, and Do Most Achieve This Goal? Part 2:
The Practice of REBT Question
14. What Is the Role of the Therapeutic
Alliance in REBT? Question
15. Do You Have to Practice REBT Like Albert
Ellis? Question
16. Which Client Factors Contribute to a Good Outcome or a
Poor Outcome in REBT? Question
17. Which Therapist Factors Contribute to a
Good Outcome or a Poor Outcome in REBT? Question
18. How Do REBT Therapists
Begin Therapy with New Clients? Question
19. How Are Therapy Sessions
Structured in REBT? Question
20. Does the REBT Therapists Behaviour Change
over the Process of REBT? Question
21. How Does REBT View Case
Conceptualisation, and How Does This Differ from Generic CBT Case
Conceptualisation? Question
22. What Is Meant by a Meta-Psychological
Disturbance in REBT, and How Is It Addressed in Therapeutic Practice?
Question
23. What Cognitive, Emotive and Behavioural Homework Assignments Do
REBT Therapists Commonly Use? Question
24. When REBT Integrates Techniques
and Ideas Found in Other Forms of Psychotherapy, How Does It Go About Doing
So? Question
25. How Is Lack of Client Progress Conceptualised in REBT?
Question
26. How Can Clients Be Harmed in REBT, and What Can Be Done to
Prevent Such Harm? Part 3: Miscellaneous Questions Question
27. What Common
Mistakes Should Novice Practitioners Avoid When Doing REBT? Question
28. How
Important Is Using Language Accurately in REBT? Question
29. What Training Is
Necessary to Become a Skilled REBT Practitioner? Question
30. What Activities
Do You Think Can Best Help REBT Practitioners Hone Their Skills in REBT?
Question
31. Does REBT Only Apply to Alleviate Disturbance, or Can It Assist
the Client in Pursuing Meaning, Life Satisfaction and Happiness? Question
32.
Why Do You Think REBT Is Less Popular Now Than It Was? Part 4: Personal
Questions about REBT Question
33. What Drew You to REBT as Opposed to Any
Other Therapeutic Approach? Question
34. Which Ideas or Techniques Have You
Personally Found Most Helpful as a Practitioner in REBT? Question
35. How
Have You Combined Your Interest in REBT with Your Interest in Single-Session
Therapy? Question
36. I Understand You Used to Have a Bad Stammer as a
Teenager. Did You Deal with This Problem in Ways that Were Consistent with
REBT? Question
37. How Have You Applied REBT in Your Life since Becoming an
REBT Therapist? Part 5: FAQs from Clients Question
38. REBT States that
Events Do Not Cause Emotions. I Can See This Is the Case When Adverse Events
Are Mild or Moderate, but Dont Very Adverse Events Like Being Raped or
Losing a Loved One Cause Disturbed Emotions? Question
39. I Am Worried about
the Principle of Emotional Responsibility. Doesnt It Lead to Blaming the
Victim? Question
40. If I Disturb Myself about Your Bad Behaviour, for
Example, Wont that Lead You to Say that My Response Has Nothing to Do with
Your Behaviour and Is This Not a Cop-Out on Your Behalf? Question
41. I Get
the Impression that REBT Neglects the Past. Am I Right? Question
42. Doesnt
the REBT Concept of Acceptance Encourage Complacency? Question
43. Doesnt
REBT Encourage Selfishness? Question
44. I Understand the Ideas of REBT
Intellectually, but I Find It Hard to Be Convinced of Them. What Can I Do?
Question
45. How Do You Respond to the Criticism that REBT Therapists
Brainwash Their Clients? Question
46. But Dont REBT Therapists Tell Their
Clients What to Feel and What to Do? Question
47. Dont REBT Therapists
Prevent Clients from Finding Their Own Solutions to Their Problems? Question
48. Isnt REBT Too Confrontational? Question
49. Isnt It the Case that REBT
Is Only Concerned with Changing Attitudes? Question
50. REBT Relies Heavily
on the Verbal Interchange Between Therapist and Client. It Also Advocates
Concepts that Are Difficult to Grasp. Doesnt This Mean REBT Only Works with
Highly Verbal, Intelligent Clients?
Windy Dryden is in clinical and consultative practice and is an international authority on Single-Session Therapy. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has worked in psychotherapy for more than 45 years and is the author or editor of over 275 books.
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