A Therapist's Manual for Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Groups Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Sank, L. I. (Author), Shaffer, C. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1461583322 ISBN-13: 9781461583325 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Gardening - Psychology | Clinical Psychology - Medical | Psychiatry - General |
Dewey: 616.89 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.84 lbs) 284 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Mentally Challenged |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: One of the great advantages of rational-emotive therapy (RET) and cog- nitive behavior therapy (CBT) is that they frequently employ psycho- educational methods-including bibliotherapy, workshops, lectures, courses, recordings, and films. I created RET at the beginning of 1955 after I had abandoned the practice of psychoanalysis because I found it to be highly inefficient and philosophically superficial. Being almost addicted to one-to-one therapy as a result of my analytic training and experience, I at first did RET only with individual clients and found this pioneering form of CBT considerably more effective than the other ther- apies with which I had experimented. By 1957, however, I realized that RET could be taught to large num- bers of persons through self-help books and articles and that RET -ori- ented writings could not only prove valuable to the general public but that they could also be successfully employed to hasten and intensify the therapy of my individual clients. I therefore wrote a number of RET self- help books-especially How to Live with a Neurotic (1957), Sex without Guilt (1958), A New Guide to Rational Living (with Robert A. Harper; original edition, 1961), and A Guide to Successful Marriage (with Robert A. Harper, 1961). |