Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Client Manual

by Windy Dryden

This book is written for those are consulting or thinking about consulting a Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapist. It outlines this approach to counselling and psychotherapy and equips its readers with the fundamental knowledge and skills required to get the most out of REBT. In particular, the book shows how to define problems and set goals, use REBT's famous ABC framework to assess problems, questions beliefs and strengthen conviction in rational beliefs so that significant psychological change is achieved, relapse prevented and common obstacles to change identified and overcome. Passively reading this manual won't help you to achieve your therapeutic goals. Actively putting into practice its suggestions almost certainly will.

100 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2003

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.