Developing Rational Emotive Behavioural Counselling

Product Description
This volume will help practising counsellors improve their skills within the rational emotive behavioural counselling (REBC) approach.


Following an introduction to the basic principles and practice of the approach, the book is organized into four parts which examine crucial REBC areas. In the first part, Windy Dryden and Joseph Yankura look at developing and maintaining a therapeutic alliance, covering such issues as developing a shared language with clients and ensuring that clients have reasonable self-helping goals. They go on to explore how REBC skills - such as identifying clients′ core irrational beliefs - can be improved. In the third part, the authors discuss helping clients to use REBC between counselling sessions,
Review
`This is an excellent book for REBC practitioners wanting to improve their practice. It provides a masterclass in print and would form a useful companion to Windy Dryden′s Rational-Emotive Counselling in Action from the SAGE Counselling in Action series′ - Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy `Disseminates Albert Ellis′s illuminating range of ideas in the area of the counselling process... The book is written in a simple style on an introductory and practical level... worthwhile for the early trainee in counselling or therapy′ - Behaviour Research and Therapy
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.
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.