The ABCs of REBT Revisited

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Windy Dryden

   Pages 1-12

3. How Clients Conceptualize the ABC Framework

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   Pages 13-34

4. How Authors of Counseling and Psychotherapy Textbooks Conceptualize the ABC Framework

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   Pages 35-64

5. How REBT Therapists Conceptualize the ABC Framework

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   Pages 65-79

6. How Ellis and Joffe Ellis (2011) Conceptualize the ABC Framework

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   Pages 81-94

7. Some Future Directions

   • Windy Dryden

   Pages 95-97

8. Back Matter

   Pages 99-101

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​​​ ​The cornerstone of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is its ABC framework which helps therapists make sense of clients' problems. As it turns out, however, this model is often misunderstood by both clients and professionals. Research investigation on this misunderstanding forms the basis of this book. It addresses the doubts, reservations and objections clients had to the ABC framework in a research study of an REBT-based program in a psychiatric hospital. Additionally, errors and confusions on the part of those writing about the therapy is reviewed. Further, study was made on the accuracy of REBT therapists, themselves, in teaching this therapy to students. Also included is an analysis of how Albert Ellis, himself, has explicated the ABC's. This book is the first to systematically study how different groups conceptualise the ABCs of REBT and the errors that are commonly made in interpreting and putting them into practice. It will be of value to students and practitioners of REBT, and those teaching REBT in academic settings. 

• Albert Ellis
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Conceptualizing the ABC Framework
• Ellis ABC's
• REBT
• REBT Therapists
• Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
• Rational emotive techniques

• Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  Windy Dryden

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