Doing Psychotherapy EffectivelyUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.04.2008 - 188 Seiten Psychotherapy is a $2.5 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. |
Inhalt
| 1 | |
1 A Brief History of Psychotherapy Research | 11 |
2 Two Types of Knowledge | 40 |
3 Assessing Similarities | 61 |
4 Assessment Styles | 76 |
5 Measuring Therapeutic Interactions | 99 |
6 Clinical Applications | 122 |
7 Concluding Remarks | 147 |
Appendix List of Relationships | 155 |
References | 159 |
Index | 171 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ability actions active-participatory analogical mode Aron Katsenelinboigen assessing relations assumes attribute theories automatic thoughts Bergin chotherapy client Clinical Psychology clinicians close coding cognitive competence conflict David Brent define depression described descriptive attributes dimensions dynamic emotions evaluation example experience external factors feel Freud global Heinz von Foerster help patients HPCM husband identified induce instance interaction interpersonal interpersonal therapy interpretation interventions intrusive intuitive knowing-in-practice knowing-in-theory logical mode Luborsky maladaptive manuals measure ment mental attributes method negative Othello passive-observant patient's statements perceive person pist positive practitioners predict problem psycho psychodynamic psychotherapy research reactive recognize rela relational assessments responsible self-efficacy session similarity situation specific statement number story Strupp studies successful therapy suggested supportive-expressive techniques theme theoretical theory thera therapeutic alliance therapeutic effectiveness therapeutic index therapeutic relationship therapist therapist's statement things thinking tion tive treatment outcome uncon unconditional understanding unique values variables York
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Seite 80 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others
Seite 42 - This maneuver presently throws the cyclist out of balance to the left, which he counteracts by turning the handlebars to the left; and so he continues to keep himself in balance by winding along a series of appropriate curvatures. A simple analysis shows that for a given angle of unbalance the curvature of each winding is inversely proportional to the square of the speed at which the cyclist is proceeding.
Seite 52 - There are two modes of cognitive functioning, two modes of thought, each providing distinctive ways of ordering experience, of constructing reality. The two (though complementary) are irreducible to one another. Efforts to reduce one mode to the other or to ignore one at the expense of the other inevitably fail to capture the rich diversity of thought.
Seite 42 - But does this tell us exactly how to ride a bicycle? No. You obviously cannot adjust the curvature of your bicycle's path in proportion to the ratio of your unbalance over the square of your speed; and if you could you would fall off the machine, for there are a number of other factors to be taken into account in practice which are left out in the formulation of this rule.
Seite 61 - It must have required many ages to discover that a brace of pheasants and a couple of days were both instances of the number 2: the degree of abstraction involved is far from easy.
Seite 49 - I, therefore, have restricted myself to giving an operational introduction to the clinician's basic view which asserts that scientists may learn about the nature of things by finding out what they can do to them, but that the clinician can learn of the true nature of man only in the attempt to do something for and "with him.
Seite 122 - If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle: don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.
Seite 64 - ... meaning could be found. On the other hand, by the use of frankly anthropomorphic concepts of emotion and attitude one could quickly and easily describe the peculiarities of the individual animals, and with this information a newcomer to the staff could handle the animals as he could not safely otherwise. Whatever the anthropomorphic terminology may seem to imply about conscious states in the chimpanzee, it provides an intelligible and practical guide to behavior.
Seite 42 - ... handlebars to the left: and so he continues to keep himself in balance by winding along a series of appropriate curvatures. A simple analysis shows that for a given angle of unbalance the curvature of each winding is inversely proportional to the square of the speed at which the cyclist is proceeding. But does this tell us exactly how to ride a bicycle? No. You obviously cannot adjust the curvature of your bicycle's path in proportion to the ratio of your unbalance over the square of your speed...
Seite 54 - A relation of likeness, between two things or of one thing to or with another, consisting in the resemblance not of the things themselves but of two or more attributes, circumstances, or effects...
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