ABSTRACT
The next two chapters by Dryden (who is a counselling psychologist) form a unit – the use of rational-emotive therapy and other cognitive methods in both assessment and training. RET is of course an explanatory theory of emotional and social dysfunction as well as a practical procedure, and is conceptually the closest “cognitive” therapy to the agency approach, hence the extensive utilization of it here. Dryden’s aim is to provide guidlines for helping the client to generate his own social skills – in other words, to put the agency back into the organism.
