Seven Principles of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy

<p>In this book, Professor Dryden outlines seven core principles of&nbsp;Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. Arguing that effective REBT&nbsp;is based on the development and maintenance of a good working&nbsp;alliance, Professor Dryden states that the REB therapist first needs&nbsp;to encourage the client to assume emotional responsibility and see&nbsp;that their problems are underpinned by a set of rigid and extreme&nbsp;attitudes which need to be changed.</p><p><br></p><p>Professor Dryden emphasises that effective REBT is also based on&nbsp;an accurate adversity-based assessment of the client's problems&nbsp;and on goal-setting that acknowledges that it is healthy to experience&nbsp;negative, but non-disturbed emotions about the adversities that&nbsp;feature in the client's problems.</p><p><br></p><p>Perhaps the key task of the REB therapist is to promote attitude&nbsp;change as a way to help the client to solve their emotional problems&nbsp;and this is given due weight in this book. However, since REBT is flexible, the therapist needs to be able to promote different forms of&nbsp;change and deal with a range of&nbsp;client issues in therapy, those that&nbsp;reflect, disturbance, dissatisfaction and development.</p>