Managing Low Self-Esteem
Book Details
- Publisher : Whurr Publishers
- Published : 2003
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 180
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 91366
- ISBN 13 : 9781861563903
- ISBN 10 : 1861563906
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Contents:
Part 1 Principles and preparing the ground: the situational ABCDE model of REBT; low self-esteem and the REBT view of unconditional self-acceptance; running self-acceptance groups - the role of the REBT therapist; setting up a self-acceptance group.
Part 2 The therapeutic curriculum in self-acceptance groups: why self-acceptance and not self-esteem?; specifying target problems and setting goals; teaching group members; how to assess specific examples of their target problems; questioning group members; how to assess specific examples of their target problems; questioning demands, self-depreciating beliefs and their healthy alternatives; explaining the process of belief change and teaching the rational portfolio method; teaching the zig zag technique; three emotive techniques to facilitate change; the conjoint use of cognitive and behavioural techniques; more cognitive-behavioural tasks and shame-attacking exercises; distorted inferences - how to challenge these products of irrational beliefs; ending, evaluation and beyond.