Counseling and Psychotherapy With Religious Persons : A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Approach

Stevan L. Nielsen

ISBN 10: 0805828788 / ISBN 13: 9780805828788

Published by Taylor & Francis Inc Mai 2001, 2001

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Neuware - This may be the most practical and user-friendly guide to treating religious persons ever published. Mental health professionals from all backgrounds will benefit from the author's detailed yet manual-focused apprch to help overcome emotional distress.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Counseling and Psychotherapy With Religious Persons : A Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Approach
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Mai 2001
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805828788
• ISBN 13: 9780805828788
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 230W x 161H x 26D millimeters 230 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 720 grams

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Synopsis

Practitioners are increasingly aware that religious persons present unique problems and challenges in therapy. Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is among the most widely practiced, highly structured and active directive approaches to treating emotional and behavioral problems. Introduced by Albert Ellis in the early 1950s, REBT is the original cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy and its efficacy has been supported by hundreds of treatment outcome studies.

A uniquely belief-focused therapy, REBT is usually quite appealing to clients from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, and other religious traditions, who respond favorably to REBT's focus on right belief, active engagement in the work of therapy, and reading/practice focused homework.

In this practical and user-friendly guide, the authors outline the congruence between the therapeutic approach of REBT and the presenting problems and concerns of religious persons. They describe an approach to reconciling the sacred traditions and beliefs of religious clients with the no nonsense techniques of REBT. They review the essential components of practice with religious clients--including assessment, diagnosis and problem formulation, disputation of irrational beliefs, and other REBT techniques, highlight the primary obstacles facing the therapist when treating religious clients, and offer many case examples from work with this important client population.

Mental health professionals from all backgrounds will benefit from the detailed yet manual-focused approach to helping religious clients overcome all forms of emotional distress.

About the Author

Stevan L. Nielsen, W. Brad Johnson, Albert Ellis