The Rational Emotive Behavioural Approach to Therapeutic Change

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Central to the REBT approach is the view that many of the problems people experience in life are largely determined by irrational beliefs they hold about themselves other people and the world. The therapist's role is therefore to help clients identify challenge and change these unhelpful beliefs. The book describes the cognitive emotional and behavioural techniques which clients can use to promote psychological change in themselves. It also discusses obstacles to change which may arise at different points in the therapeutic process and provides strategies for tackling them.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Despite its centrality within counselling and psychotherapy surprisingly little has been written on the subject of change and in a way that is accessible for trainees and practitioners. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Rational Emotive Behavioural Approach to Therapeutic Change </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>will be welcomed both by those specializing in REBT and those trained in other approaches wanting to learn more about the change process in counselling and psychotherapy.</span></p>