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Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy

100 Key Points and Techniques

  • Price: $23.99 $21.59
  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Also available in Hardback and e-Book
  • Published: June 2006
  • ISBN: 978-1-58391-741-1
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Series: 100 Key Points.

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is practised all over the world and has many therapeutic, occupational and educational applications.

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques presents 100 main features of this system, to help therapists improve their practice. These essential points have been derived from the authors' own practice, and also from their experience as trainers and supervisors of novice rational emotive behaviour therapists. Beginning with an introduction outlining the basics of the approach, this book offers thorough coverage of all the vital topics, including:

- therapeutic alliance issues

- educational issues

- dealing with clients' misconceptions about REBT

- encouraging clients to work at change

- dealing with obstacles to client change

- using the system in a creative way.

This concise and highly practical book will be invaluable to psychotherapists and counsellors in training and practice, ensuring comprehensive understanding of the REBT approach.

Table of Contents

Preface. The Basics of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. Part I: Therapeutic Alliance Issues. Use the Concept of the Therapeutic Alliance. Vary Your Bond with Different Clients. Vary Your Influence Base. Vary the Extent of Your Directiveness Over the Course of Therapy. Work to Facilitate Your Clients' Learning. Use the 'Challenging, but not Overwhelming' Principle. Establish the Reflection Process. Use a Common Language with Your Clients. Maintain a Goal-directed Stance in Therapy. Elicit Your Clients' Commitment to Effect Change. Strive for Philosophical Change, But Be Prepared to Compromise. Engage Clients in the Most Productive Therapeutic Arena. Part II: Educational Issues. Suggest that Clients Record and Review their Counselling Sessions. Educate Clients in the Model and Process of REBT and Help Them Understand Your Respective Roles Within that Process. Explain What You are Doing and Why You are Doing it. Pay Attention to Clients' Non-Verbal and Paraverbal Behaviour. Teach and Re-teach Your Clients the Principle of Emotional Responsibility. Teach the Full Distinction Between Rational Beliefs and Irrational Beliefs. Teach Your Clients to Distinguish Between Healthy and Unhealthy Negative Emotions. Teach Your Clients the Importance of Dealing with Emotional Disturbance Before They Learn New Skills or Change Their Evironment. Teach Your Clients About the Cognitive Consequences of Irrational Beliefs and the Effects that Bringing Irrational Beliefs to Situations Have On their Interpretations at A. Teach Relapse Prevention. Teach Your Clients the Principles of REBT Self-therapy.

Author/Editor Biography

Windy Dryden is Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths College, London

Michael Neenan is Associate Director of the Centre for Stress Management, London

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