Understanding Psychological Health: The REBT Perspective by Windy Dryden

By Windy Dryden

This ebook attracts on Rational Emotive Behaviour treatment (REBT) - which specializes in resolving emotional and behavioural difficulties and disturbances and permits humans to steer happier and extra enjoyable lives - to offer an knowing of mental future health. each one bankruptcy appears to be like at a huge point of mental well-being after which discusses it relating to the REBT technique.

Divided into components the booklet appears to be like first at how humans can stay psychologically fit within the face of adversity after which is going directly to talk about how those fit philosophies underpin yes key components of mental healthiness. As such, themes of dialogue include:

  • flexibility
  • acceptance
  • self-motivation
  • resilience.

Understanding mental Health might be of serious curiosity to all therapists in either perform and training.

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Let's again take the case of Erica whom I ®rst discussed in Chapter 2. D. programme. However, she is also very anxious about the possibility that she may not gain entry onto this programme. REBT theory holds that it is not the strength of Erica's non-extreme struggle component that explains her anxiety. D. D. g. D. programme'), as we have seen, this extreme belief is comprised of both a struggle component and an extreme `it's intolerable' component. As noted earlier, a discomfort tolerance belief is comprised of three components: a struggle component, a toleration component 48 Discomfort tolerance and a `worth it' component.

Similarly, I acknowledge that as I work to internalise this realistic credo, I will experience many lapses along the way. The best way of dealing with these lapses is to accept them, without liking them, learn speci®c things from them and act on such speci®c learning in relevant future situations. When I acknowledge that holding ¯exible beliefs is healthy this becomes another preferred condition in my life. As such, I may well demand that I have to think ¯exibly which paradoxically is evidence that I am in fact thinking rigidly.

Thus, some of us think that it is dif®cult to tolerate when there is an element of risk present in the things that we do because we prefer that element to be absent, while others think that it is dif®cult to tolerate when this element of risk is absent because we prefer it to be present. 46 Discomfort tolerance Struggle and the intensity and type of discomfort When we think of struggle and discomfort, it is important to consider the intensity and type of discomfort experienced. g. `When I feel very uncomfortable, I ®nd it very dif®cult to tolerate this').

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