Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Elegant Psychotherapy for Religious Clients. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Today. Rational Emotive Assessment With Religious Clients. Rational Emotive Case Conceptualization and Session Planning: An Overview. Disputation. Behavioral and Emotive Interventions for Religious Clients. Obstacles to Effective REBT With Religious Clients. Guilt and REBT. Forgiveness and REBT. REBT With Specific Religious Groups.

About the Author

Stevan L. Nielsen, W. Brad Johnson, Albert Ellis

Reviews

"Nielsen, Johnson, and Ellis do an outstanding job of illustrating why REBT is well suited for work with religious persons....Highly recommended for counseling and psychotherapy collections serving upper-division undergraduates through professionals."
—CHOICE"Readers who notice that the authors of this volume on religion and counseling include a professor at Brigham Young University of LDS persuasion (Nielsen), a professor of the Naval Academy who is an evangelical (Johnson), and the often-religiously antagonistic Albert Ellis will quickly realize that this book is a significant one. All three authors are impressively knowledgeable about Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), of which Ellis is the founder, and all three authors have collaborated elsewhere on the use of REBT with relilgious themes...Not only is this authorial trio quite remarkable, the content of the book is important. All therapists need to be familiar with current REBT strategies, and this book will give all readers a good and comprehensive overview of this important clinical approach."
—Journal of Psychology and Christianity"Religious beliefs contribute to the attributions an individual constructs, shaping personal meaning, emotional experience and behavior. Counseling and Psychotherapy With Religious Persons provides a detailed introduction to the application of rational emotive behavior therapy to the clinical consideration of religious beliefs. [It] considers the challenging ethical issue of addressing personal beliefs while respecting a client's faith perspective...[and] contributes to the evolving literature which takes seriously the role of religion in mental health and psychological treatment."
—Edward Shafranske, Ph.D.
Pepperdine University"When my students ask me for a reference on how REBT can be used with religious clients, I will, without hesitation, recommend this splendid volume. The authors' views blend well together to make this a very important contribution..."
—Windy Dryden, Ph.D.
Goldsmiths College, University of London