Rational emotive behaviour therapy: distinctive features
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) encourages the client to focus on their emotional problems in order to understand, challenge and change the irrational beliefs that underpin these problems. This text introduces REBT while indicating how it is different from other approaches within the broad cognitive behavioural therapy spectrum.
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- Full title :Rational emotive behaviour therapy : distinctive features / Windy Dryden.
Summary
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) encourages the client to focus on their emotional problems in order to understand, challenge and change the irrational beliefs that underpin these problems. This text introduces REBT while indicating how it is different from other approaches within the broad cognitive behavioural therapy spectrum.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 143 pages ; : 19 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415430852, 0415430852, 9780415430869, 0415430860, 9780203889084, 0203889088
- oclc:ocn225090100
- LC Classification:RC489.R3
- Dewey Decimal:616.89/14
Table of Contents
1. Post-modern relativism -- 2. REBT's position on human nature and other theoretical emphases : distinctiveness in the mix -- 3. REBT's distinctive ABC model -- 4. Rigidity is at the core of psychological disturbance -- 5. Flexibility is at the core of psychological health -- 6. Extreme beliefs are derived from rigid beliefs -- 7. Non-extreme beliefs are derived from flexible beliefs -- 8. Distinction between unhealthy negative emotions (UNEs) and healthy negative emotions (HNEs) -- 9. Explaining why clients' inferences are highly distorted -- 10. Position on human worth -- 11. Distinction between ego and discomfort disturbance and health -- 12. Focus on meta-emotional disturbance -- 13. The biological basis of human irrationality -- 14. Choice-based constructivism and going against the grain -- 15. Position on good mental health -- 16. therapeutic relationship in REBT -- 17. Position on case formulation -- 18. Psycho-educational emphasis -- 19. Dealing with problems in order : (i) disturbance; (ii) dissatisfaction; (iii) development -- 20. Early focus on iBs -- 21. Helping clients to change their irrational beliefs to rational beliefs -- 22. Use of logical arguments in disputing…
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