Books by Windy Dryden

Are you struggling to control your anger? Feel like you're on a short fuse all the time? Do little things tip you over the edge? Unhelpful beliefs and rigid expectations can lead to a cycle of unhealthy anger, which can be dangerous and destructive. Windy Dryden draws a distinction between healthy and unhealthy anger, and shows you how you can control your unhealthy anger by understanding what triggers it. The good news is that you have the power to change this pattern, and to develop strategies to express your anger in a helpful way, so that you can communicate what you feel without scaring yourself, or those close to you. Practical, rational, strategic and supportive, this updated second edition contains the latest therapeutic insights, allowing you to make lasting and meaningful changes to the way you process your beliefs and manage overwhelming or destructive emotions.

This latest addition to the Primers in Counselling series offers an introduction to rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT). REBT therapists seek to help their clients identify, examine and change the rigid and extreme attitudes that underpin their emotional problems, and to develop alternative flexible and non-extreme alternative attitudes.

In this latest addition to the best-selling 'Primers in Counselling' series, one of UK's foremost therapy authors outlines the why, what and how of single-session counselling and the evidence that supports it.

This classic book has inspired thousands with its sensible, can-do advice. Ten easy steps to a new you!

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.

Single-Session `One-at-a-Time¿ Therapy outlines an innovative and experimental approach to improving mental health and will appeal to psychotherapists and counsellors looking for an accessible and authoritative guide to brief therapeutic work.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.