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Author Dryden, Windy

Title Flexibility-Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy : Insights from 40 Years of Practice
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (155 pages)
Contents Flexibility-Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy- Front Cover; Flexibility-Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Rigidity and flexibility; 1.1 Procrustes; 1.2 Rigidity and flexibility in psychological functioning; 1.3 Rigidity and flexibility in the practice of psychotherapy; 1.4 The concepts of flexibility and rigidity in Flexibility-Based CBT; 1.5 Pluralism and Flexibility-Based CBT; Chapter 2: Effective bonds in therapy; 2.1 The â#x80;#x98;core conditionsâ#x80;#x99;; 2.2 The reflection process; 2.3 Interpersonal style; 2.4 The bonds of influence
2.5 Transference and counter-transferenceChapter 3: Shared views in therapy; 3.1 The importance of explicit communication in FCBT; 3.2 Negotiated consent; 3.3 Discovering which therapeutic approach the client is looking for and explaining howI work (FCBT); 3.4 The practicalities of therapy; 3.5 Confidentiality and its limits; 3.6 The contributions of therapist and client to FCBT; 3.7 How the client and I conceptualise the clientâ#x80;#x99;s problem(s); 3.8 How my client and I plan to address the clientâ#x80;#x99;s problems; Chapter 4: Negotiated and agreed goals in therapy
4.1 The clientâ#x80;#x99;s perspective on goals with respect to the target problem4.2 My perspective on goals with respect to the target problem; 4.3 Negotiating goals appropriate to the clientâ#x80;#x99;s psychological state; Chapter 5: Goal-directed tasks in therapy; 5.1 Using working alliance theory to inform the selection and use of therapeutic tasks; 5.2 Tasks and therapist expertise; Chapter 6: The importance of context in FCBT; 6.1 The context of clientsâ#x80;#x99; problems can be specific or general; 6.2 Contexts: descriptions or inferences; 6.3 Two major ways of dealing with inferences about contexts
6.4 When inferences are coloured by rigidity6.5 Dealing with inferences that are highly distorted and skewed to the negative; 6.6 The clientâ#x80;#x99;s behaviour can help bring about contexts; Chapter 7: Working with rigid and flexible attitudes and mindsets in therapy; 7.1 The emphasis of choice in the attitudes taken towards adversities; 7.2 The emphasis of choice in the rigid and flexible attitudes taken towards adversities; 7.3 Helping the client to choose between the two options: dialectical enquiry; 7.4 The importance of taking action in the face of adversity
7.5 Helping clients to develop a flexible mindsetChapter 8: Working with extreme and non-extreme attitudes in therapy; 8.1 The emphasis of choice in the awfulising and non-awfulising attitudes taken towards adversities; 8.2 The emphasis of choice in the discomfort intolerance and discomfort tolerance attitudes held towards adversities; 8.3 The emphasis of choice in the devaluation and unconditional acceptance attitudes held towards adversities; Chapter 9: The change process in therapy; 9.1 Drydenâ#x80;#x99;s (2011b) stage-based model of the FCBT process; 9.2 Engagement; 9.3 Exploration
Summary In this book, Windy Dryden brings together the four major strands that have shaped his idiosyncratic approach to clinical practice - (i) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; (ii) flexibility in practice; (iii) Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy; and (iv) pluralism - an approach he calls 'Flexibility-Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy'
Notes 9.4 Cognitive-experiential understanding
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cognitive therapy.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- methods
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
cognitive behaviour therapy.
flexibility-based CBT.
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy.
Windy Dryden.
Cognitive therapy.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351246415
1351246410