Books by Windy (Goldsmiths College Dryden

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

Drawn from his wealth of experience as a counsellor and trainer, this book comprises thirty brief reflections in which Windy Dryden addresses some of the most important aspects of the counselling process. The book opens with five pieces that consider the authors major personal counselling interests and other general issues.

Windy Dryden has been involved in the training and supervision of counsellors for more than twenty years. This book draws together in one volume his contributions to the literature on this subject.

These twelve interviews were conducted by Windy Dryden with different counsellors and psychotherapists on a wide variety of topics. Among the interviewees and subjects are Arnold Lazarus on sacred cows in psychotherapy and Patricia Milner on the counsellor and ME.

The best of Windy Dryden's writings from the period 1980ACA-1990. It will appeal to anyone with a theoretical or practical interest in counselling.

Offers an introduction to REBT, an approach to CBT which argues that at the core of emotional disturbance lies a set of irrational beliefs that people hold about themselves and others. This title covers basic theoretical and practical information that trainees need to begin using REBT.

This textbook is part of a series which provides both professional counsellors and psychology students with guidelines on the use of brief therapy. This is a process which involves a limited number of therapeutic or counselling sessions, with agreed objectives and much client engagement.

Written for both practitioners and students, this work sets out to demonstrate the complexities of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) in order to do justice to the system of psychotherapy that tackles emotional disturbance.

Draws together virtually all the author's writings on rational-emotive therapy (RET) that were published as journal articles or book chapters during the period 1979-1990. The book opens with an overview of RET theory and concludes with an outline of how the author has used RET on a personal level.

A companion volume for "Preparing for Client Change in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy", the training material in this book is arranged in modular format.