The Handbook of Individual Therapy

by Windy Dryden (editor), Andrew Reeves (Editor)

This compendium serves as an excellent reference point for an academic as well as practitioner. It is an exceptional achievement! Dr Ladislav Timulak, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland [It] continues to be the book that one turns to when looking for a clear introduction to the broad range of talking cures that are offered in the UK today. Dr Nick Midgley, Anna Freud Centre This classic text has helped over 50,000 students wishing to understand the key counselling and psychotherapy approaches. This sixth edition is the most comprehensive update since it was first published in 1984, with 15 newly contributed chapters and 8 updated chapters. Each approach now includes a new Research section summarising the research findings, an in-depth Case Study illustrating how that approach works in practice, and an extended Practice section. Also covered: - historical context and development

- main theoretical assumptions

- which clients will benefit most

- strengths and limitations. New chapters include Compassion-Focussed Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Mindfulness in Individual Therapy, Pluralistic Therapy, Transpersonal Therapy. This is an ideal one-stop shop for trainees of counselling, psychotherapy, counselling psychology, psychology and other allied professions wanting to learn about the most commonly practised therapies today. Prof Windy Dryden currently works at Goldsmiths College where he is Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies as well as being the programme co-ordinator of the MSc in Rational-Emotive & Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and the Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Andrew Reeves is a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist and freelance trainer and writer. He is a former Editor Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal.

Genres: Psychology

672 pages, Paperback

First published August 22, 1996

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

[Denise Aitken · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really good book covering lots of different theraputic approaches, with information about the theory, a biography of the theorist and sections on the acquisition and perpetuation of psychological disturbance in each modality.

It can be very wordy at times the language is almost impenetrable but overall is one of the most useful resources I have used in my counselling studies.