This is a very honest book and should be essential reading for anyone beginning training as a counsellor. It will also be useful for experienced therapists to stimulate reflections on their own practice... to examine their work and to learn from errors. It is refreshing to witness the honesty and openness of the writers - especially so in the present culture, where many therapists set themselves up as flawless experts... I would recommend this book... it provides an informed and open discussion on the problems encountered by therapists' - "Clinical Psychology Forum

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Includes guidelines that show practitioners how they can give their clients the most effective help for their stress problems using a technically eclectic and systematic approach. This book discusses the symptoms and causes of stress and outlines a framework in which stress problems can be understood.

The format is easy to access and stimulates reflection on practice' - "International Review of Psychiatry

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This volume contains 30 useful hints and reminders to help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve key areas of their work. The book encourages counsellors to focus on areas that they may feel need special attention, covering topics such as the formation of an ethical and productive alliance, working with effective tasks and goals, identifying and addressing clients' obstacles to change, and developing professional knowledge and self-reflection.

Counsellors frequently work with people who are under stress or who are distressed - but counselling them can itself be a highly stressful activity. This supportive book examines the sources of stress for counsellors and the practical strategies that they can use to overcome it.

Stress may emerge in the work that counsellors do with specific client groups, in the contexts in which counselling takes place and in the educational process both for counsellor educators and for counsellors in training. In this book, practising counsellors with first-hand experience of dealing with stress examine...

Managing Low Self Esteem charts Windy Dryden's work in running brief, structured, educationally-orientated, self-acceptance groups. The book is based on the principles of Rational Emotive Behaviour - an approach to counselling and psychotherapy. This approach has a philosophical position in the self which stresses a person's uniqueness, humanity, complexity and fallibility. In this way, it advocates self-acceptance rather than self-esteem. It also argues that this position can be taught and learned in a short peiod of time. Through detailed session reviews, the book shows how...

This text is devoted to the presentation and assessment of actual demonstration sessions of REBT. The book opens with a brief introduction to the theory and practice of REBT and an outline of the 13 steps of the REBT treatment sequence. Demonstration sessions are then analyzed accordingly.

Two experienced teachers of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) have assembled over 100 errors commonly made by students. The authors then proceed to deal with each error, explaining what has gone wrong and how to put it right.

Contains practical suggestions and appendices to help practising and trainee supervisors develop and enhance the skills they need to be successful in their work. This book covers such key areas as creating a supervisory alliance, fostering supervisory relationship, use of tape-recording and highlighting supervisees' strengths and weaknesses.

There are times when we all need to be more assertive, to be positive about ourselves and about others, to show respect for others by respecting ourselves. This book puts assertiveness in context and offers practical, thoroughly researched, tried and teste

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.