Help Yourself with Single-Session Therapy

by Windy Dryden

Overview

Help Yourself with Single-Session Therapy provides an outlook on how you can help yourself with your emotional problems by using insights from single-session therapy.

Single-session therapy draws upon the skills and strengths of both the therapist and the client. The book will encourage you to develop your own solutions to your problems. Broken down into fourteen accessible chapters, it will help you to identify the problem before guiding you to provide your own goals and solutions. The importance of how to maintain change is also a key part of the process.

Help Yourself will be useful for all those who wish to help themselves with their emotional problems and for those who wish to support them. It will also be relevant for counsellors, psychotherapists and students in these disciplines who are interested in the application of very-brief therapy to self-help.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367632625
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/22/2020
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

Windy Dryden, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is an international authority on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and Single-Session Therapy (SST). He has worked in psychotherapy for over 45 years and is the author and editor of over 235 books.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Why self-help? 1

2 Do you need help? 8

3 What is single-session therapy (SST)? 22

4 Use the single-session self-help mindset 28

5 Prepare yourself for change 35

6 Engage in the 'reflect-digest-act-wait-decide' process 43

7 Develop a problem focus 46

8 Understand and formulate emotional problems based on people's responses to adversity 49

9 Understand and formulate problems based on avoidance 63

10 Set goals 75

11 Address your problem by searching for a solution 88

12 Develop and implement an action plan related to your chosen solution 103

13 Identify and deal with obstacles to change 110

14 Maintain your gains and generalise your learning 126

Index 135