Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Foundations and Beyond [Paperback]

This book contains my approach to Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) which preserves its foundations but connects it to the broader field of psychotherapy. REBT has become somewhat disconnected from psychotherapy in general, and from CBT in particular, and its important contributions are not easily accessible to those entering the field. One of the purposes of this book is to reconnect REBT with the mainstream field of psychotherapy and to restore its place in the CBT tradition.

Preface: Why Foundations and Beyond?.- Part 1: The New Language of REBT.- Chapter 1: New REBT Terminology for a Modern Therapeutic Age.- Part 2: The Defining Theoretical Features of REBT.- Chapter 2: REBT’s Attitudinal-Based Approach to Therapy: The Central Role of Attitudes.- Chapter 3: REBT’s Stance on Unhealthy Negative Emotions and Their Healthy Alternatives.- Chapter 4: REBT’s Approach to Self-Esteem Issues.- Part 3: The Practice of REBT.- Chapter 5: The Development of a Good Working Alliance in REBT.- Chapter 6: Pluralistic REBT: Client-Led and Strengths-Based.- Chapter 7: Initiating the Process of REBT.- Chapter 8: Adopting a Problem Focus in REBT.- Chapter 9: Helping Clients to be Tough-Minded and Tender-Minded.- Chapter 10: REBT-Informed Single-Session Therapy.

Windy Dryden is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University of London. He has been involved in the field of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy since 1978 and has practised it ever since, but in a way that connects it to the broader area of psychotherapy. He is also interested in very brief therapy and specialises in single-session therapy. He has written or edited over 290 books.&amlC/