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A practitioner's guide to rational-emotive behavior therapy /

Designed for both therapists-in-training and seasoned professionals, this practical treatment guide introduces the basic principles of rational-emotive behaviour therapy, explains general therapeutic strategies, and offers many illustrative dialogues between therapist and patient. It breaks down eac...

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Main Authors: DiGiuseppe, Raymond (Author), Doyle, Kristene A. (Author), Dryden, Windy (Author), Backx, Wouter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Rational emotive behavior therapy.
Psychotherapy, Rational-Emotive
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780190230043
0190230045
9780199908189
0199908184
9781299708358
1299708358
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword to the second edition / Albert Ellis
  • Preface
  • About the authors
  • Basic introduction to REBT
  • Albert Ellis and the philosophy of REBT
  • Rational emotive behavior theory
  • The irrational and rational beliefs
  • General therapeutic strategies
  • The A-B-C model and teaching clients the B to C connection
  • Getting therapy off to a good start
  • Basic therapy skills
  • The A-B-C's of REBT : assessment
  • Identifying the A
  • The C : the emotional and behavioral consequences
  • Assessing the B
  • Therapy : getting down to D
  • Disputation, and E
  • the new effective response
  • Cognitive change strategies
  • Challenges to specific irrational beliefs
  • The effective new belief (EB)
  • Evocative, imaginal, and behavioral change strategies
  • Problems and solutions in challenging irrational beliefs
  • Therapeutic styles : the how not the what in disputing beliefs using an active directive style
  • The therapeutic whole
  • Homework assignments
  • Comprehensive rational-emotive behavior therapy
  • The course of therapy and beyond
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index.

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