Emmett Velten, PhD, Rational Emotive Behavior
Therapy, CBT, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, self-esteem, self-worth, Unconditional
Self-Acceptance, telephone therapy, informed consent, panic attacks, agoraphobia,
OCD, depression, non-12-Step, SMART Recovery®, Self-Management And Recovery
Training, self-help, Albert Ellis, Albert Ellis Institute, optimism, philosophy
of life, Rational Therapy, dual diagnosis, Ellis’s biography, ARCA, Assisted
Recovery Centers of America
About
Dr. Emmett Velten
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I am a clinical psychologist licensed in Arizona
(0313) and California
(PSY 7106) and have more than 30 years of professional experience.
My bachelor's degree in psychology is from the University of Chicago and
PhD in clinical psychology is from the University of Southern California.
My dissertation produced the Velten Mood Induction Procedure, which is widely
used in research on mood states.
At the Albert
Ellis Institute, I am a training supervisor, a member of its Board of
Professional Advisors and of its Board of Trustees. I have been on the clinical
faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, and taught at the
California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco; am a volunteer advisor
to Self Management
And Recovery Training (SMART Recovery®) and editor of its newsletter,
SMART Recovery® News & Views; and am a past president of
the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy.
I am the clinical director of ARCA,
Assisted Recovery Centers of America, located in Phoenix. ARCA is a private,
non-12-step, substance abuse treatment program that uses anti-craving medications
as part of treatment. ACRA uses Cognitive Behavior Therapy as its counseling
component.
Boxervate®
a physical and mental fitness program that integrates boxing training and
REBT self-help methods.
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Dr. Albert Ellis &
I have co-authored two books (click to order)
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Optimal
Aging: Get Over Getting Older.
When
AA Doesn’t Work for You: Rational Steps To Quitting Alcohol.
These books, along with a satirical audiotape, How To Be Unhappy
at Work, are available from the Albert
Ellis Institute.
from See
Sharp Press
by Emmett Velten
Albert Ellis: American Revolutionary,
by Emmett Velten.
This book traces the development of the theories and techniques of perhaps
the most important psychologist of the 20th century. The author is a longtime
associate of Ellis. (for release in 2007)
Under the Influence: Reflections of Albert Ellis in the Work of
Others,
by Emmett Velten, ed.
A look at Ellis's under acknowledged contributions to psychology and at similar
ideas in the works of those who came after him. (for release in 2007)
>> Order direct from the publisher and save
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Press
I am also co-authoring a book for therapists working with clients who have
dual
diagnoses (substance abuse and severe mental illness) and have published
a number of articles on addiction.
Rx
for Learning Disability. (PDF) By Emmett Velten and Carlene
T. Sampson.
Article topics: Medicine..Learning Disabilities
Education..Professors
Criminology..Education (Criminology)
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