Bøker av Windy Dryden

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.

Counselling in a Nutshell does what it says on the tin - it is the most concise, accessible and AFFORDABLE introduction to counselling in general. In this second edition Professor Windy Dryden updates his succinct discussion of key concepts and ideas of the therapeutic approach.

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.

From one of the biggest names in counselling, this book provides an active-directive approach to rational emotive behaviour counselling

Cognitive therapy (CT), developed by Aaron Beck in the US in the 1960s, is a structured, time-limited, problem-focused, and research-based system of psychotherapy, which seeks to identify, examine, and modify clients' maladaptive thinking found in psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety.

Contains the contributions to the development of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). This book opens with a brief overview of basic REBT theory and practice. It includes chapters that deal with the theoretical developments and practical innovations, looking at areas such as brief REBT, behaviour and the ABCs, and using REBT in supervision.

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.

A study of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT). Written in an easy-to-read style, it seeks to strip away the sophistication that can cause confusion and focuses on the essential elements of REBT.

`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