Foreword / Basic 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 -- The Therapeutic Curriculum in Self-Acceptance Groups -- Session 1: Why self-acceptance and not self-esteem? -- Session 2: Specifying target problems and setting goals -- Session 3: Teaching group members how to assess specific examples of their target problems -- Session 4: Questioning demands, self-depreciation beliefs and their healthy alternatives -- Session 5: Explaining the process of belief change and teaching the rational portfolio method -- Session 6: Teaching the zigzag technique -- Session 7: Three emotive techniques to facilitate change -- Session 8: The conjoint use of cognitive and behavioural techniques -- Session 9: More behavioural-cognitive tasks and shame-attacking exercises -- Session 10: Distorted inferences - how to challenge these products of irrational beliefs -- Session 11: Ending, evaluation and beyond. Albert Ellis -- Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. II. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
"Through detailed session reviews, this book shows how unconditional self-acceptance can be taught not only to psychotherapy clients, but to members of the general public."--BOOK JACKET.