Managing Low Self Esteem

Windy Dryden, BSc, DipPsych, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, is Professor of Counselling at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor or author of over 125 books in the area of counselling and psychotherapy. His primary interests are rational emotive behaviour therapy and disseminating its theory and techniques to the general public, through writing short, accessible, self-help books.

• The situational ABCDE model of REBT Low self-esteem and the REBT view of unconditional self-acceptanceRunning self-acceptance groups: the role of the REBT therapistSetting up a self-acceptance groupWhy self-acceptance and not self-esteem?Specifying target problems and setting goalsTeaching group members how to assess specific examples of their target problemsQuestioning demands, self-depreciation beliefs, and their healthy alternativesExplaining the process of belief change and teaching the rational portfolio methodTeaching the zigzag techniqueThree emotive techniques to facilitate changeThe conjoint use of cognitive and behavioural techniquesMore behavioural-cognitive tasks and shame-attacking exercisesDistorted inferences : how to challenge these products of irrational beliefsEnding, evaluation, and beyond