Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Dryden′s Handbook of Individual Therapyis now a classic text for trainees in counseling and psychotherapy. This newly updated Fifth Editionpresents a comprehensive overview of the key approaches to individual therapy practice, including three new chapters on Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and Integrative & Eclectic Approaches. Written by experts in their own therapeutic field, the book introduces the principles and methods of individual therapy concisely and accessibly. Following a clearly defined structure, each chapter outlines one approach in detail and provides case examples to illustrate how that approach works in practice.

Each form of therapy is described in terms of:
Its historical context The main theoretical assumptions The mode of practice Which clients will benefit most The general strengths and limitations of the approach Further chapters place counseling and psychotherapy in its social context, explore training and supervision, and relate research to individual therapy practice.

Dryden′s Handbook of Individual Therapyis designed for those in training in counseling, psychotherapy, counseling psychology, and other helping professions such as nursing, social work and education. It will be invaluable for novice therapists looking for an overall picture of individual therapy practice, and also experienced therapists interested in learning about alternative approaches.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The Cultural Context of British Psychotherapy
• Psychodynamic Therapy: The Freudian Approach
• Psychodynamic Therapy: The Kleinian Approach
• Psychodynamic Therapy: The Jungian Approach
• Adlerian Therapy
• Person-Centred Therapy
• Personal Construct Therapy
• Existential Therapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Transactional Analysis
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy
• Cognitive Therapy
• Behaviour Therapy
• Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Integrative and Eclectic Approaches
• Methods, Outcomes and Processes in the Psychological Therapies across Four Successive Research Generations
• The Training and Supervision of Individual Therapists

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT.

He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel.

He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.