Doing psychotherapy effectively / Mona Sue Weissmark & Daniel A. Giacomo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weissmark, Mona Sue.

Contributor:

Giacomo, Daniel A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--Philosophy.

Psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy--Evaluation.

Psychotherapist and patient.

Similarity judgment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Psychotherapy is a .5 billion business in the United States, but no one can answer the basic question of how therapy works. No watchdog groups rank therapists for potential consumers; no one school of thought has proven to be superior to another. And no method has emerged for determining what makes therapy successful for some but not for others. Doing Psychotherapy Effectively proposes much-needed answers to the puzzling questions of what therapists actually do when they are effective. Mona Sue Weissmark and Daniel A. Giacomo offer a unique mode of evaluation that focuses not on a particular school of therapy but on the relationship between therapist and patient. Their approach, the "Harvard Psychotherapy Coding Method," begins with the assumption that good therapeutic relationships are far from intuitive. Successful relationships follow a pattern of behaviors that can be identified and quantified, as the authors demonstrate through clinical research and videotaped sessions of expert therapists. Likewise, positive changes in the patient, observed through client feedback and case studies, can be described operationally; they involve the process of overcoming feelings of detachment, helplessness, and rigidity and becoming more involved, effective, and adaptable. Weissmark and Giacomo explain and ground these principles in the practice of psychotherapy, making Doing Psychotherapy Effectively an accessible and pragmatic work which will give readers a tool for measuring therapeutic effectiveness and further understanding human transformation. For the first time, successful therapy is described in a way that can be practiced and communicated.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. A Brief History of Psychotherapy Research

2. Two Types of Knowledge

3. Assessing Similarities

4. Assessment Styles

5. Measuring Therapeutic Interactions

6. Clinical Applications

7. Concluding Remarks

Appendix: List of Relationships

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-170) and index.

ISBN:

9786611430412

9781281430410

1281430412

9780226891699

0226891690

OCLC:

476228154