Written in a typically practical and straightforward style, this popular book shows how to develop a truly positive outlook. These ten steps outline skills to help people to take control, be flexible, accept reality, develop self-acceptance, accept change and improve relationships. Steps may be followed in order, or taken individually as required. The book has been updated in line with current therapeutic thinking, with particular emphasis on the concepts of resilience and mindfulness.

Do you sometimes wish you could turn the clock back and re-live past mistakes? Do you feel it's your responsibility to make others happy? Are you more worried about hurting others than living your own life? Guilt is a common and destructive emotion, but, using the principles of C.B.T. this book shows how it can be put to positive use. Whether it concerns sins of omission, or sins of commission, this book demonstrates that you don't always have to live up to unrealistically high expectations of yourself, and shows how to move on.

We all love comfort - but, psychologically, it can be a real trap, holding you back and keeping you stuck in dead-end situations. Using the principles of Rational Emotive Therapy, this book helps people deal with discomfort in life, with advice on how to get things done, achieve goals and overcome inertia. The book covers the problems of those who take a masochistic approach to life's frustrations, and those who use "quick fixes" such as alcohol and drugs. It discusses how to overcome emotional problems which can result when things don't go to plan, such as anger, depression and self-pity. Topics include: The many faces of the comfort trap dealing with urges and feelings of deprivation tolerating unpleasant feelings dealing with impatience and boredom overcoming procrastination developing persistence dealing with the discomfort of change

Negative emotions are a natural response to life's adversities - but they can be experienced in a healthy way. This book looks at eight emotions - anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, hurt, anger, jealousy, and envy - and suggests ways in which they may be used to help rather than harm, even when life doesn't go your way. Topics include: The difference between deadly emotions and healthy negative emotions Giving yourself permission to feel bad How to challenge unhelpful beliefs Understanding the consequences of your thinking How to develop a healthy attitude towards uncertainty Tips and techniques such as the 'magic question' Professor Windy Dryden says that sometimes we're not prepared for adversity and don't know exactly how to handle it. The good news is that he has expert advice on how to make those uncomfortable feelings work for you.

Life's challenges range from redundancy, relationship break-up and illness, to other people's disapproval, rejection and betrayal. You may initially respond to such events with shaken identity and insecurity, but that doesn't have to be the end of the story. Using techniques based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), this helpful book looks at how to surmount difficult but common adversities so that you can move on. Topics include; facing up to inherited tendencies and personal limitations, identifying and dealing with areas where you are not in control, living with uncertainty and loss, coping with job lodd, making healthy choices in relationships, dealing with failures, dealing with unfairness and injustice. Professor Windy Dryden says that while even the luckiest of us must sometimes face advertisity, we can learn to deal with difficult situations so that wan can go on living as healthily as we can.

• Presents the 100 main features of this way of working, providing an accessible, succinct overview of SST. • Single Session Therapy continues to be a globally expanding trend • Windy Dryden is a key leader in the field of Single Session Therapy and has written a number of key titles on the subject.

The second edition of Dealing with Emotional Problems Using Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy offers clear, practical advice on how to deal with some of the most common emotional difficulties we face. Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is a therapy approach that encourages a direct focus on emotional problems, helping you to understand the attitudes, thoughts and behaviours that lead you to maintain these problems. This understanding will enable you to overcome problems and lead a happier and more fulfilling life. The book begins by outlining foundations of emotional problems. Each problem is then presented in a similar way, allowing the reader to compare and contrast similarities and differences between each emotion, and how to cope with it. This book covers: • anxiety • depression • guilt • shame • hurt • unhealthy anger • unhealthy jealousy • unhealthy envy • and a new chapter on unhealthy regret. Featuring newly revised information and language on REBT, this Client’s Guide is an accessible, user-friendly guide that can be used on your own or in conjunction with a therapist who can use the Practitioner's Guide.

Windy Dryden is the leading figure in the field of single-session therapy

Windy Dryden is the leading figure in the field of single-session therapy

• Presents the 100 main features of this way of working, providing an accessible, succinct overview of SST. • Single Session Therapy continues to be a globally expanding trend • Windy Dryden is a key leader in the field of Single Session Therapy and has written a number of key titles on the subject.

In this practical companion to the client manual, Windy Dryden draws on Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) – an approach that focuses on challenging and changing the rigid and extreme attitudes that largely determine emotional and behavioural issues – to encourage people to deal with their emotional problems. Including all of the information presented in the Client’s Guide with the addition of helpful hints and tips for the therapist, the Practitioner’s Guide is straightforward to use in the consulting room with no need for further references. It allows the therapist to work through and help the client learn to deal with their problems from an REBT perspective, covering: • anxiety • depression • guilt • shame • hurt • unhealthy anger • unhealthy jealousy • unhealthy envy • and a new chapter on unhealthy regret. This practical guide presents each emotion in a similar way, allowing the reader to compare and contrast common and distinctive features of each problem. With new REBT research and updated, accessible terminology, this new edition will remain essential reading for any professional using REBT with their client.

In this practical companion to the client manual, Windy Dryden draws on Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) – an approach that focuses on challenging and changing the rigid and extreme attitudes that largely determine emotional and behavioural issues – to encourage people to deal with their emotional problems. Including all of the information presented in the Client’s Guide with the addition of helpful hints and tips for the therapist, the Practitioner’s Guide is straightforward to use in the consulting room with no need for further references. It allows the therapist to work through and help the client learn to deal with their problems from an REBT perspective, covering: • anxiety • depression • guilt • shame • hurt • unhealthy anger • unhealthy jealousy • unhealthy envy • and a new chapter on unhealthy regret. This practical guide presents each emotion in a similar way, allowing the reader to compare and contrast common and distinctive features of each problem. With new REBT research and updated, accessible terminology, this new edition will remain essential reading for any professional using REBT with their client.

The second edition of Dealing with Emotional Problems Using Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy offers clear, practical advice on how to deal with some of the most common emotional difficulties we face. Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is a therapy approach that encourages a direct focus on emotional problems, helping you to understand the attitudes, thoughts and behaviours that lead you to maintain these problems. This understanding will enable you to overcome problems and lead a happier and more fulfilling life. The book begins by outlining foundations of emotional problems. Each problem is then presented in a similar way, allowing the reader to compare and contrast similarities and differences between each emotion, and how to cope with it. This book covers: • anxiety • depression • guilt • shame • hurt • unhealthy anger • unhealthy jealousy • unhealthy envy • and a new chapter on unhealthy regret. Featuring newly revised information and language on REBT, this Client’s Guide is an accessible, user-friendly guide that can be used on your own or in conjunction with a therapist who can use the Practitioner's Guide.

This authoritative volume commemorates six decades of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy by assembling its current state of theory, practice, and research. Bedrock chapters on defining features, assessment and measurement, and empirical findings place REBT squarely in the cognitive-behavioral landscape, reinforcing its status as a significant therapeutic approach. The book's palette of applications shows the flexibility and effectiveness of REBT in school, workplace, and other settings, with worried parents and "stuck" athletes, and as a foundation for brief interventions. And the survey of guiding principles and the evolution of the method by REBT founder Albert Ellis is a testament to its enduring clinical value. Included in the coverage: * A comparison of REBT with other cognitive behavior therapies. * The measurement of irrationality and rationality. * Empirical Research in REBT theory and practice. * Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and the working alliance. * Brief interventions in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. * REBT and positive psychology. * Rational emotive behavior education in schools. Advances in REBT will be welcomed as a definitive reference across the REBT community: frontline clinicians, novices, trainees, students, and researchers. Seasoned practitioners looking to incorporate REBT into their repertoires will find it immensely helpful.

In his earlier book "Rational-Emotive Therapy: Fundamentals and Innovations" Dr Dryden outlined the central features of Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) as it had developed in and from the work of Albert Ellis. He then proceeded to discuss innovations within the theory, several of which had been instigated by the author.

Originally published in 1987, this book builds upon these latter elements. It discusses the theoretical basis of RET, arguing that it can be accurately described as theoretically consistent eclectic therapy, and analyses the problems encountered in, and the benefits derived from, its practice. At the time this book provided a state of the art discussion of RET and will still be of interest for those involved in counselling, psychotherapy, clinical psychology, psychiatry and social work.

Rational-emotive therapy was developed over a number of years from the work of Albert Ellis, who set up the Institute of Rational-Emotive Therapy in New York. As a form of therapy it integrates some of the features of both the behaviour therapies and the more traditional psychotherapies, although its closest links are with cognitive behaviour therapy.

Originally published in 1984, this was the first book by a British author on this subject and it brings together all the author s previous work in this area. Its unique character is that it presents both the fundamentals, based on the work of Ellis, and innovations, developed in part by the author, extending this work. The book therefore combines theory and practice and will be of interest to those in counselling, clinical psychology, psychiatry and social work, as well as those in nursing and occupational therapy."

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is an approach to counselling and psychotherapy in which great emphasis is placed on how attitudes are at the root of emotional problems and their solution. The first edition of Reason to Change was written as a one-of-a-kind workbook teaching the practical skills of REBT. In this updated edition, Windy Dryden teaches, in a very specific way, the skills needed to use this therapeutic approach in practice in a thorough and accessible way. Each skill is explained in detail, and examples are given of how each skill can be put into practice. These skills include: developing a problem list and setting goals choosing a target problem and assessing a specific example examining attitudes dealing with your doubts, reservations and objections taking action. By using these skills in an active way, it can be possible to address effectively emotional problems such as anxiety, depression, shame, guilt, hurt, unhealthy anger, unhealthy jealousy and unhealthy envy. This book can be used by people on their own, and by those who are consulting an REBT therapist. It will also be of interest to therapists and counsellors.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques is a crisp, concise elaboration of the 100 main features of the very popular and evidence-based CBT approach within the field of psychotherapy. In recent decades CBT has been applied to an ever-increasing number of problems (including anxiety disorders, substance abuse and eating disorders) and populations (children, adolescents and older people). With newly incorporated material on supervision, this extensively revised and updated third edition covers CBT theory and practice. Divided into helpful sections, the topics covered include: Misconceptions about CBT Teaching the cognitive model Assessment case conceptualization treatment planning Ways of detecting and answering negative automatic thoughts (NATs) Homework (between-session assignments) Conducting behavioural experiments Uncovering and restructuring intermediate and core beliefs Relapse management Resistance Supervision Third wave CBT This compact, usable book is an essential guide for psychotherapists and counsellors, both trainee and qualified, who need to ensure they are entirely familiar with the key features of CBT as part of a general introduction to the current major psychotherapies.

Productive therapeutic change is facilitated when the therapist and client have a good therapeutic relationship, share views on salient therapeutic matters, agree on goals to enhance client well-being, and understand what they each have to do to achieve the goals of therapy. In this book Windy Dryden and Michael Neenan address the difficulties that both client and therapist bring to rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) when either party is resistant to change.

Divided into two parts, 'Client resistance' and 'Therapist resistance', Working with Resistance in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy tackles the challenges experienced by both client and clinician when using REBT. Addressing issues of resistance enables both the client and practitioner to move beyond problems in the consulting room and build a more productive relationship, resulting in more effective sessions and assisting in the resolution of underlying problems for which the client has sought help.

Working with Resistance in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy is essential reading for any practitioner hoping to use REBT more effectively in their day-to-day practice.

Mistakes are often an inevitable part of training; Learning from Mistakes in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy encourages the trainee to pinpoint potential errors at the earliest possible stage in training, helping them to make fast progress towards becoming competent REBT practitioners.

Windy Dryden and Michael Neenan have compiled 111 of the most common errors, explaining what has gone wrong and how to put it right, and have divided them into eight accessible parts:

• general mistakes
• assessment mistakes
• goal-setting mistakes
• disputing mistakes
• homework mistakes
• mistakes in dealing with client doubts and misconceptions
• working through mistakes
• self-maintenance.

Learning from Mistakes in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy is an indispensable guide for anyone embarking on a career in the REBT field.

The first two editions of Life Coaching have become well-known and valued texts. Text has been fully updated for the third edition to reflect the current state of the field. The book is structured by problem - i.e. how to deal with procrastination, how to be more assertive - and thus very user-friendly.

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques presents 100 main features of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) to help therapists improve their practice. This new edition has been updated throughout to take account of changes in the field and to be more consistent with the ideas of the authors, which have been derived from their experience as trainers and supervisors of novice rational emotive behaviour therapists. Beginning with an introduction outlining the basics of the approach, this book offers thorough coverage of all the vital topics including: working alliance issues educational issues dealing with misconceptions about REBT encouraging clients to work at change dealing with obstacles to change using REBT creatively. This concise and highly practical book will be invaluable to psychotherapists and counsellors in training and practice, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of the REBT approach.

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is an approach to counselling and psychotherapy rooted in the CBT tradition, and one that has a distinctive perspective on emotional problems. Understanding Emotional Problems and their Healthy Alternatives provides an accurate understanding of the REBT perspective on eight major emotional problems for which help is sought and their healthy alternatives: anxiety and concern depression and sadness shame and disappointment guilt and remorse unhealthy anger and healthy anger hurt and sorrow unhealthy jealousy and healthy jealousy unhealthy envy and healthy envy. Rather than discussing treatment methods, Windy Dryden encourages the reader to understand these problems accurately and suggests that doing so will provide a firm foundation for effective treatment. This new edition, updated throughout, reflects the increased interest in helping clients work towards 'healthy negative emotions'. Understanding Emotional Problems and their Healthy Alternatives will be essential reading for therapists, both in training and in practice.

Help Yourself with Single-Session Therapy provides an outlook on how you can help yourself with your emotional problems by using insights from single-session therapy. Single-session therapy draws upon the skills and strengths of both the therapist and the client. The book will encourage you to develop your own solutions to your problems. Broken down into fourteen accessible chapters, it will help you to identify the problem before guiding you to provide your own goals and solutions. The importance of how to maintain change is also a key part of the process. Help Yourself will be useful for all those who wish to help themselves with their emotional problems and for those who wish to support them. It will also be relevant for counsellors, psychotherapists and students in these disciplines who are interested in the application of very-brief therapy to self-help.