Developing Self-Acceptance

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One of the world's leading practitioners, thinkers and teachers inthe field of psychotherapy and counselling here presents an accountof how to run brief, structured, educationally oriented groupswhich aim to develop self-acceptance as a step in helping clientswho have emotional problems. Windy Dryden illustrates the processand practicalities of running self-acceptance groups with adetailed session-by-session review of his own practice with onegroup, using the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy approach withwhich he is so much associated. This book offers to students andpractitioners of therapy and counselling * An introduction to the principles of REBT and some valuabledevelopments of the approach which will interest even experiencedfollowers of REBT * A powerful process for building self-acceptance, rather thanself-esteem, in a way which stresses a person's uniqueness,humanity, complexity and fallibility * Clear, practical guidance on how therapists and counsellors canuse and present these principles and processes within structured,educational groups "Windy Dryden has done it again ... he has taken one of the keytheories of REBT, added to it considerably, and shown in detail howit can be successfully implemented by teachers, and by therapistswith their clients ... (he) has done a great service to emotionaleducation by providing us with this sound and practical manual."From the Foreword by Albert Ellis, President, Albert EllisInstitute for REBT, New York This book appears in the Wiley Seriesin Brief Therapy and Counselling Series Editor: Windy DrydenGoldsmiths College, University of London, UK

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Gruppentherapie Psychologie Psychology Psychotherapie u. Beratung Psychotherapy & Counseling Rational-emotive Psychotherapie

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"...exceptionally clear illustration of the therapeutic concepts and process..." (Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy, Vol.30, 2002)
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