Dealing with Emotional Problems Using Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

by Windy Dryden

In this practical companion to the client manual, Windy Dryden draws on Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT) – a form of CBT that focuses on challenging and changing the irrational beliefs that largely determine emotional and behavioural issues – to encourage people to deal with their emotional problems. This Practitioner's Guide includes all of the information presented in the Client’s Guide with the addition of helpful hints and tips for the therapist, making it straightforward to use in the consulting room with no need for further references. Dealing with Emotional Problems Using Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy will allow the therapist to work through and help the client learn to deal with their problems from an RECBT perspective, This practical Workbook presents each emotion in a similar way, allowing the reader to compare and contrast common and distinctive features of each problem. It will be essential reading for any professional using RECBT with their client.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT and has trained with Drs. Albert Ellis, Aaron T. Beck, and Arnold Lazarus.

He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey, and Israel.

He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Reviews

[Aly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Il libro è un ottimo approfondimento sul metodo e spiega come applicarlo ad alcune delle problematiche più comuni. Manca una stella perché da per scontati alcuni concetti basilari dei fondamentali del metodo e non ne parla.

[jb-rand · Rating 1 out of 5]

Look. It's a cool formula. It scratches that itch between intuition and theory that a psychological program demands. But this is some of the laziest editing and production I've seen in a guide.
If you're interested in this for its utility just read the first chapter and the appendices. Chapters rely less on defining concepts, developing reasonable methods of questioning irrational beliefs and understanding emotional symptoms and place an unusual emphasis on vague self-help cliches.
Also the chapters on jealousy and envy are weird as shit.
Maybe this is why CBT and related therapies are getting so much hate.