Full Description
"The contributors are an esteemed group that have played significant roles in shaping contemporary understanding of the issues they will be addressing. The number of chapters coincides with the number of weeks in a typical semester, increasing its use as a course text."
—Brian Vandenberg, University of Missouri-St. Louis
A landmark publication, Critical Issues in Psychotherapy moves the discipline into the new millennium by addressing many of the field's new and revolutionary approaches. Through illustrative therapy cases and practitioner commentaries, this text examines both the newer and the more established models in psychotherapy. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this volume translates the new approaches to psychotherapy, making them more accessible to students. Organized around the issues that are fundamental to psychotherapy, chapters include information on empirically validated treatments, mainstream theories, individualism, spirituality, multiculturalism, moral and legal discourse, and managed care. Bringing together an esteemed group of authorities, this will be the ideal text for students in advanced courses in psychotherapy and counseling practice and theory.
Contents
Issue 1
Empirically Supported Treatments
What's a Non-Behaviorist to Do? - Marian S Bergin
Commentary
Issue 2
Assessment - Constance T Fisher
Psychological Assessment
From Objectification Back to the Life World - Steven Lars Nielsen
Commentary
Issue 3
Biologization of Psychotherapy - Richard N Williams
The Biologization of Psychotherapy
Understanding the Nature of Influence - Louis A Moench
Commentator
Issue 4
Spirituality - Sally H Barlow and Allen E Bergin
The Phenomenon of Spirit in a Secular Psychotherapy - Lorna Smith Benjamin
Commentary
Issue 5
Culture - Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand
Psychotherapy as an Instrument of Culture - Lynne A Bennion
Commentary
Issue 6
Managed Care - David E Polkinghorne
Managed Care Programs
What Do Clinicians Need? - Lynne D Johnson
Commentator
Issue 7
Individualism - Frank C Richardson
Individualism and Modern Psychotherapy - Judy Norman
Commentary
Issue 8
Scientist-Practitioner Model - Hendrika Vande Kemp
The Patient-Philosopher Evaluates the Scientist-Practitioner
A Case Study - James M Harper
Commentary
Issue 9
Free Will//Determinism - Joseph F Rychlak
Psychotherapy as Practical Teleology
Viewing the Person as an Agent - Diane L Spangler
Commentary
Issue 10
Eclecticism - Brent D Slife and Jeffrey Reber
Eclecticism in Psychotherapy
Is It Really the Best Substitute for Traditional Theories? - Ted Packard and Kay Packard
Commentator
Issue 11
Postmodernism - Barbara S Held
What it Means for Psychotherapy - And What It Doesn't - Amy Fisher-Smith
Commentary
Issue 12
Multiculturalism - Blaine J Fowers
Culture, Identity and Loyalty
New Pathways for a Culturally Aware Psychotherapy - Agnes M Plenck
Commentator
Issue 13
Diagnosis - Robert L Woolfolk
Objectivity in Diagnosis and Treatment
A Philosophical Analysis - Daniel K Judd
Commentary
Issue 14
Feminism - Jeanne Marecek
Bringing Feminist Issues to Therapy - Marybeth Raynes
Commentary
Conclusion - Daniel Robinson
The Values of Psychotherapy
