Core processes in brief psychodynamic psychotherapy : advancing effective practice / edited by Denise P. Charman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charman, Denise, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brief psychotherapy.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Evidence-based psychiatry.

Physical Description:

xv, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.

Summary:

Analyzing the tasks of brief psychodynamic therapy as a manageable progression of steps, this book offers a step-by-step guide to evidence-based practice.

Contents:

Part I Initiating and Assessing Suitability for Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

1. Effective Psychotherapy and Effective Psychotherapists / Denise P. Charman 3

2. Optimizing Outcome Through Prediction and Measurement of Psychological Functioning / Michael J. Lambert, Robert D. Hunt, David A. Vermeersch 23

3. The First Interview / Bonnie A. Rudolph 47

4. Assessing Patient Capacities for Therapy: Psychological-Mindedness and Quality of Object Relations / Anthony S. Joyce, Mary McCallum 69

Part II Determining and Maintaining a Focus

5. Outcomes and Factors Related to Efficacy of Brief Psychodynamic Therapy / Stanley B. Messer, Amelia H. Kaplan 103

6. Case Formulation: Determining the Focus in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy / Tracy D. Eells, Kenneth G. Lombart 119

7. Constructing Interpretations and Assessing Their Accuracy / Mary Beth Connolly Gibbons, Paul Crits-Christoph, Phillip Apostol 145

8. The Evidence: Transference Interpretations and Patient Outcomes

A Comparison of "Types" of Patients / John Ogrodniczuk, William Piper 165

Part III Keeping an Eye on the Relationship

9. Defining and Identifying Alliance Ruptures / Lisa Wallner Samstag, J. Christopher Muran, Jeremy D. Safran 187

10. The Power of Ground Rules / Robert Langs 215

11. Countertransference and Its Management in Brief Dynamic Therapy / Charles J. Gelso 231

12. Maintaining the Therapeutic Alliance: Resolving Alliance-Threatening Interactions Related to the Transference / Dawn Bennett, Glenys Parry 251

Part IV Ending and Evaluating

13. Ending Therapy: Processes and Outcomes / Denise P. Charman, Anne C. Graham 275

14. Termination, Posttermination, and Internalization of Therapy and the Therapist: Internal Representation and Psychotherapy Outcome / Elizabeth G. Arnold, Barry A. Farber, Jesse D. Geller 289

15. Measuring Clinically Significant Change / Michael J. Lambert, Ted P. Asay 309

Part V Special Issues

16. Critical Factors in Supervision: The Patient, the Therapist, and the Supervisor / Susan Allstetter Neufeldt 325

17. The Ethical Challenges of Brief Therapy / Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel 343

18. Curative Factors in Work With Older Adults / Michael Duffy 361

Appendix The Case Study: The Therapy, the Patient, and the Therapist / Jackie Fosbury 383.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805840672

0805840680

OCLC:

51553477