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: Strategies for transforming rigid "musts" and "shoulds" into flexible preferences.

There are specialized versions and companion pieces within this series:

: Teaching the critical distinction between unconditional acceptance and resignation or condonation of bad behavior. Key Features

: Reminding therapists to be both didactic and Socratic during the therapeutic process.

The guide is structured to be a "handy" reference with succinct points, avoiding verbose explanations. Notable reminders include:

: Tips on distinguishing between being "rigid" versus "rigorous" and addressing "over-sensitivity" by removing the element of disturbance. Related Editions

, written by Windy Dryden and Michael Neenan, serves as a concise, practical guide for practitioners of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Published by the Albert Ellis Institute (2003/2008), it is designed to provide quick access to the core theoretical and practical aspects of the approach that therapists may sometimes neglect in the heat of a session. Core Purpose and Audience

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: Strategies for transforming rigid "musts" and "shoulds" into flexible preferences.

There are specialized versions and companion pieces within this series: The REBT Therapist’s Pocket Companion

: Teaching the critical distinction between unconditional acceptance and resignation or condonation of bad behavior. Key Features : Strategies for transforming rigid "musts" and "shoulds"

: Reminding therapists to be both didactic and Socratic during the therapeutic process. The guide is structured to be a "handy"

The guide is structured to be a "handy" reference with succinct points, avoiding verbose explanations. Notable reminders include:

: Tips on distinguishing between being "rigid" versus "rigorous" and addressing "over-sensitivity" by removing the element of disturbance. Related Editions

, written by Windy Dryden and Michael Neenan, serves as a concise, practical guide for practitioners of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Published by the Albert Ellis Institute (2003/2008), it is designed to provide quick access to the core theoretical and practical aspects of the approach that therapists may sometimes neglect in the heat of a session. Core Purpose and Audience

Jonathan Butler: The Simple Life

Jonathan Butler’s optimistic music belies a dirt-poor childhood growing up in a South Africa segregated by apartheid. Live in South Africa, a new CD and DVD package, presents a sense of the resulting inner turmoil, mixed with dogged resolve, that paved the way to his status as an icon in his country and successful musician outside of it. Looking back, the 46-year-old Butler says today, the driving forces that led to his overcoming apartheid-the formal policy of racial separation and economic discrimination finally dismantled in 1993-were family, faith and abundant talent.

“When we were kids, our parents never talked about the ANC [African National Congress] or Nelson Mandela,” he says. Butler was raised as the youngest child in a large family. They lived in a house patched together by corrugated tin and cardboard, in the “coloreds only” township of Athlone near Cape Town. “They never talked about struggles so we never knew what was happening.”

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