2nd Edition

Working Creatively with Obstacles to Client Change in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy A Practitioner’s Guide

By Windy Dryden Copyright 2025
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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. This book will address the obstacles to client change that both client and therapist bring to Rational Emotive Behaviour... Read more

1. Rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) in brief PART 1. Client Obstacles to Client Change 2. Dealing with client obstacles to client change in the bonds domain of the working alliance 3. Dealing with client obstacles to client change in the views domain of the working alliance 4. Dealing with client obstacles to client change in the goals domain of the working alliance 5. Dealing with client obstacles to client change in the tasks domain of the working alliance 6. A process-orientated view of client obstacles to client change PART 2.  Therapist Obstacles to Client Change 7. Dealing with therapist obstacles to client change in the bonds domain of the working alliance 8. Dealing with therapist obstacles to client change in the views domain of the working alliance 9. Dealing with therapist obstacles to client change in the goals domain of the working alliance 10. Dealing with therapist obstacles to client change in the tasks domain of the working alliance 11. A compendium of therapist problems 12. A process-orientated view of therapist obstacles to client change

Biography

Windy Dryden is in clinical and consultative practice and is an international authority on Single-Session Therapy and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. He has worked in psychotherapy for more than 45 years and is the author or editor of over 275 books.