Bøger af Windy Dryden

Albert Ellis founded and has spent a lifetime practising and teaching rational emotive behaviour therapy. Using excerpts from Ellis' own writings to clarify the discussion, this book looks at the famous ABC analysis which enables people to understand and deal with their problems, and the key concepts of ego disturbance and discomfort disturbance.

Contains practical suggestions and appendices to help practising and trainee supervisors develop and enhance the skills they need to be successful in their work. This book covers such key areas as creating a supervisory alliance, fostering supervisory relationship, use of tape-recording and highlighting supervisees' strengths and weaknesses.

Describes the cognitive, emotional and behavioural techniques which clients can use to promote psychological change in themselves. This book discusses obstacles to change, which may arise at different points in the therapeutic process and provides strategies for tackling them.

A guide to using rational emotive therapy RET in counselling individuals.

`As the creator of Rational Emotive Therapy I have probably read more books dealing with its theory and practice than has anyone else. Of all these books, Windy Dryden and Michael Neenan's is easily one of the best - Albert Ellis, Albert Ellis Institute

Contains 30 useful hints and reminders to help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve key areas of their work. This book covers topics such as the formation of an ethical and productive alliance, working with effective tasks and goals, and identifying and addressing clients' obstacles to change.

Offering conceptualizations of many common client problems, this book develops the cognitive-behavioural counselling approach. It elaborates the specifics of tackling problems as diverse as surviving in a family with a personality disordered member and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Includes guidelines that show practitioners how they can give their clients the most effective help for their stress problems using a technically eclectic and systematic approach. This book discusses the symptoms and causes of stress and outlines a framework in which stress problems can be understood.

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. CBT Tips for a Happier Life is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to learning some basic Cognitive Behavioural Therapy skills that will help to boost your self-esteem, prevent negative thinking, and overcome self-defeating behaviour that might stop you reaching your goals. In just 128 pages you will discover a complete toolkit for making positive and lasting changes to your way of thinking and acting.

By changing and challenging your negative thoughts, you can free yourself from depression, anxiety and guilt, and embrace a happier, healthier way of life. Windy Dryden, one of the UK's leading practitioners of Behavioural Therapy, will show you how the techniques of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy can not only beat the thought patterns that lead to low mood and emotional distress but will also help you to develop a more balanced way of life and give you a resilient, focused attitude towards overcoming obstacles and coping with daily challenges.

Helping Clients Deal with Adversity by Changing Their Attitudes: A Concise Therapist Guide provides an outline for therapists wishing to help clients deal with life¿s adversities by encouraging them to change their attitudes.

The cornerstone of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy isits ABC framework which helps therapists make sense of clients' problems. This book is the first to systematically study how different groups conceptualise the ABCs of REBT and the errors that are commonly made in interpreting and putting them into practice.

Provides a concise but systematic guide to the basics of REBT - a valuable approach for helping clients overcome emotional and behavioural difficulties. The authors have updated this practical resource to reflect recent developments in REBT theory and practice.

This is the first book devoted to group therapy applications of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). REBT is an active--directive, psychoeducational approach to psychotherapy and as such it is very well suited to being practised with groups.

A collection of five transcripts of therapy sessions conducted by Albert Ellis, the founding father of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). It provides an opportunity to 'listen in' on a master therapist carrying out the therapy which he originated. It offers an insight into the theory and practice of REBT.

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.

Charts Windy Dryden's work in running brief, structured, educationally orientated, self acceptance groups. This book is based on the principles of Rational Emotive Behaviour an approach to counselling and psychotherapy.

A guide to cognitive behavioural theory and practice. It presents comprehensive descriptions of key counselling approaches in the twenty-first century. It is suitable for students requiring a theory bridge between introductory, intermediate and diploma courses or focused input for comparative essays and integrative theory assignments.

In the rapidly maturing profession of counselling, this book's sensitivity to time as a precious resource, clients' perceptions, evidence-based guidelines and integration of some of the best thinking from several counselling models make it an ideal core text for beginners and reflective practitioners.

There are times when we all need to be more assertive, to be positive about ourselves and about others, to show respect for others by respecting ourselves. This book puts assertiveness in context and offers practical, thoroughly researched, tried and tested advice.

Helping clients to develop alternative and more constructive viewpoints to tackle their problems lies at the heart of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). This book provides therapists with ideas and arguments they can present to and build on in their discussions with clients.