The Practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

By Windy Dryden and Albert Ellis

Book Overview

Reissued with a new foreword by Raymond DiGiuseppe, PhD, ScD, St. John's University

New trainees often get the theory of psychopathology; they struggle to get the case conceptualization and the strategic plan. Then they ask themselves. "What do I do now?" Going from the abstractions to the actions is not always clear.

The Practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy represents a compilation of years of theoretical and clinical insights distilled into a specific theory of disturbance and therapy and deductions for specific clinical strategies and techniques....The structure of this books focuses on an explication of the theory, a chapter on basic practice, and a chapter on an in depth case study. A detailed chapter follows on the practice of individual psychotherapy. Although the book is not broken into sections, the next four chapters represent a real treasure. The authors focus on using REBT in couples, family, group, and marathons sessions. Doing REBT with one person is difficult to learn. Once the clinician adds more people to the room with different and sometimes competing agendas things get more complicated. These chapters will not only help the novice clinician but also the experienced REBT therapists work better in these types of sessions.

So, consider yourself lucky for having picked up this book. Reading it will help many people get better." - From the Foreword by Raymond DiGiuseppe, PhD, ScD, Director of Professional Education, Albert Ellis Institute; Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, St. John's University

This edition, involving a unique collaboration between Albert Ellis and the world's greatest Ellis scholar, Windy Dryden, modernizes Ellis's pioneering theories. The book begins with an explanation of rational emotive behavior therapy as a general treatment model and then addresses different treatment modalities, including individual, couple, family, and sex therapy. The authors have added material new since the book's original edition on teaching the principles of unconditional self-acceptance in a structured group setting. With extensive use of actual case examples to illustrate each of the different settings, and a new brand new foreword by Raymond DiGiuseppe that sets the book into its 21st-century context.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826122167
• ISBN13: 9780826122162
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Practice of Rational Emotive Therapy

This is an excellent summary and review of one of the most valuable cognitive type therapies in use today. It is very valuable for family practitioners and psychiatrists in office practice. It is written in a simple matter of fact way. Very practical and I think in family practice you can use it with almost all patients with situational depresion, anxiety, unresolved grief and marital therapy Thanks- Hector A. Feliciano M.D.- Proffesor of Family Medicine

Just what I needed

When I read this (from the book): "The essence of human emotional disturbance consists of the absolutistic "must's" and "must not's" that people think about their failure, about their rejections, about their poor treatment by others, and about life's frustrations and losses. To avoid emotional disturbance, they can be surrendered if they give up their absolutistic demands on themselves, other people and the universe. And at the same time, have strong and persistent desires, wishes, and preferences, and to avoid feelings of detachment, withdrawal, and lack of involvement." I was shocked. This is just what I needed to finally understand why I felt so much anger and got anxious after wood when "other people" acted so irrationally, not to say stupidly. I understood it right that moment: they're not the problem, it's me.