About

Wayne Froggatt...

A social worker by profession, Wayne Froggatt trained at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and has been in practice for about 25 years. His early experience encompasses residential work for a church social service and community work for a territorial local authority; with most of his career spent in the health sector, mainly in mental health. His current professional activities involve psychotherapy, supervision, training, and writing. He works part-time with a multi-disciplinary community mental health team, the remainder as a training consultant and in clinical private practice.

Practitioner of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy

In his clinical work, stress management, supervision and training activities, Wayne Froggatt uses cognitive-behaviour therapy comprising a blend of Beck 's 'Cognitive Therapy ' and Ellis ' 'Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy ', with an emphasis on the latter. He trained for his Primary and Advanced Certificates in Rational-Emotive Therapy with the Australian Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy, and in 1994 went to New York for the Associate Fellowship programme. He has since become an Associate Fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, and an accredited REBT supervisor. In 1997 he became Executive Director of the newly-formed New Zealand Centre for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, and has also been appointed as a Consultant Director of the Centre for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (UK) based in London.

Trainer

Wayne Froggatt provides in-service training for organisations on cognitive-behaviour therapy and its application to a range of mental health topics, teaches the Postgraduate Certificate in Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy at the Eastern Institute of Technology in New Zealand, and regularly speaks to community groups in various parts of the country on a range of mental health-related topics. Several times a year in different parts of New Zealand he presents Certificate courses in REBT along with individual workshops in applications of REBT. He provides stress management courses to groups and organisations, as well as courses in 'Rational Effectiveness Training '' - the application of REBT to workplace effectiveness. He has accreditation as a clinical supervisor from the Central Institute of Technology, and a Certificate in Adult Teaching from the Palmerston North College of Education.

Clinician

Wayne Froggatt practices primarily at the clinical end of social work with individuals, couples, and groups; mainly with mental health and related problems. His special interest is anxiety management, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and generalised anxiety disorder.

Writer

Wayne Froggatt has written two books which have been published by HarperCollins New Zealand. Choose to be Happy: Your step-by-step guide was published in 1993 and has been reprinted many times. A comprehensive self-help book based on Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy, it addresses a range of common mental health problems, including depression and anxiety. GoodStress: The life that can be yours was published in September 1997, and represents a Cognitive-Behavioural approach to stress management. Both these books reflect what he sees as an orientation to using psychotherapy as a self-help/self-empowering methodology.

He has developed a large number of articles and other resources for client use and for professional training purposes, including a self-administered assessment instrument to identify need for help in a range of areas such as assertiveness training, addiction counselling, relationship counselling, social skills training, etc.; a self-administered assessment of degree of adherence to self-defeating attitudes; assessment and management of depression and suicide risk; presenting training programs; various articles on the principles and practice of cogntive-behaviour therapy; and outline-style 'how-to '' notes on a range of problem areas, including sexual dysfunction, anger management, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, loneliness, agoraphobia, suicide management, and others.

In collaboration with Richard Lakeman, Snior Lecturer in Psychiatric Nursing at the Eastern Institute of Technology, he is developing a CD-ROM application of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy which can be used to assess self-defeating thinking and develop self-help solutions.

July, 1999