Essential psychotherapies : theory and practice

✍ Scribed by Stanley B Messer; Alan S Gurman

• Publisher: Guilford Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 528
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

''The leading survey text for basic psychotherapy courses, this book offers authoritative, engaging presentations of the 12 most important forms of psychotherapy practiced today. Prominent experts cover traditional treatments as well as influential models that have been developed relatively recently, giving students and practitioners a solid grasp of foundational theories, techniques, and research. Each chapter follows a common set of organizational guidelines; features illustrative vignettes and a full case example; and concludes with readings and resources to guide further study. New to This Edition Incorporates the latest clinical developments and research. Chapter on ''third-wave'' behavior therapies. Each chapter has expanded discussions of the role of the therapeutic relationship and the use of evidence-based practices. Concise chapters make the book even more instructor and student friendly''--Provided by publisher. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Contemporary issues in psychotherapy theory, practice, and research: a framework for comparative study / Stanley B. Messer and Alan S. Gurman --
Contemporary Freudian psychoanalytic psychotherapy / David L. Wolitzky --
Relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy / Rebecca Coleman Curtis and Irwin Hirsch --
Behavior therapy: traditional approaches / Martin M. Antony and Lizabeth Roemer --
Cognitive therapy / Kimberly A. Dienes, Susan Torres-Harding, Mark A. Reinecke, Arthur Freeman, and Ann Sauer --
Behavior therapy: functional-contextual approaches / William C. Follette and Glenn M. Callaghan --
Person-centered psychotherapy and related experiential approaches / Arthur C. Bohart and Jeanne C. Watson --
Existential-humanistic psychotherapies / Kirk J. Schneider --
Family therapies / Nadine J. Kaslow, Jeshmin Bhaju, and Marianne P. Celano --
Couple therapies / Alan S. Gurman --
Brief psychotherapies / Michael F. Hoyt --
Integrative approaches to psychotherapy / George Stricker and Jerry Gold --
Group psychotherapies / Virginia Brabender.
Abstract: ''The leading survey text for basic psychotherapy courses, this book offers authoritative, engaging presentations of the 12 most important forms of psychotherapy practiced today. Prominent experts cover traditional treatments as well as influential models that have been developed relatively recently, giving students and practitioners a solid grasp of foundational theories, techniques, and research. Each chapter follows a common set of organizational guidelines; features illustrative vignettes and a full case example; and concludes with readings and resources to guide further study. New to This Edition Incorporates the latest clinical developments and research. Chapter on ''third-wave'' behavior therapies. Each chapter has expanded discussions of the role of the therapeutic relationship and the use of evidence-based practices. Concise chapters make the book even more instructor and student friendly''--Provided by publisher