Dryden discusses the specialized form of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), which has features that clearly distinguish it from other forms of cognitive-behavior therapies. Looking in
turn at distinctive theoretical and distinctive practical features, he considers such topics as the distinction between unhealthy negative emotions and healthy negative emotions, the biological
basis of human irrationality, REBT’s position on the origin and maintenance of psychological problems, helping clients change their irrational beliefs to rational beliefs, and theoretically
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