A combination of scientifically-driven techniques and an art incorporating creativity, intuitiveness, and empathy, psychotherapy is well worth celebrating, refining, and expanding. But just as scientific study of psychotherapy is demonstrating how very effective it is, economic, political, and social pressures are undercutting the profession's ability to offer effective treatment. It is more crucial than ever for practitioners to understand the dynamics that affect outcomes. Psychotherapy Indications, Outcomes, and Mechanisms reviews the current status of psychotherapy, in the 1990's, with attention to the existing evidence of its efficacy and underlying mechanisms that appear related to positive and negative outcomes. The book is an up-to-date compendium of research by esteemed leaders in the field of psychotherapy investigation.
It covers: * The interpersonal, patient, therapist, underlying personality, and general patient characteristics that determine psychotherapeutic outcome* The nature, theory, and efficacy of dialectical behavioral therapy in treating borderline personality disorder* Interpersonal therapy* An effective group therapy model for the treatment of cancer and medical illness sufferers* Family therapy in general and in the treatment of psychotic patients* Methodological considerations in psychotherapy and psychopharmacological research* The relationship of psychotherapy to managed care and important perspectives on psychotherapy's survival in these current difficult times This book provides a clear view of the scientific basis underlying psychotherapy practice and research. Complete with extensive references and illustrative tables and graphs, it will be an invaluable source of information to practitioners, researchers, and graduate students.
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The broad coverage of a wealther of cable pedigree of the authorship must establish this as a potentially important source text for psychotherapy researchers. British Journal of Psychiatry
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David S. Janowsky, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Preface. Part I: Individual and Interpersonal Determinants of Psychotherapeutic Effects. The efficacy of dynamic and other psychotherapies: is it true that "everyone has won and all must have prizes?" -- an update. Personality factors in brief treatment of depression: further analyses of the NIMH-sponsored Treatment for Depression Collaborative Research Program (TDCRP). Therapist and patient personality characteristics and the nature, quality, and outcome of psychotherapy: focus on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Patient characteristics associated with successful treatment outcome. Part II: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder: efficacy, specificity, and cost effectiveness. Part III: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Cognitive and behavioral therapies alone or combined with antidepressant medication in the treatment of depression. Efficacy, indications, and mechanisms of action of cognitive therapy of depression. Cognitive-behavior therapy for the eating disorders. Part IV: Interpersonal Therapy: Mechanisms and Efficacy. Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and the health care scene: Joseph Zubin Award Lecture. Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and the health care scene. Interpersonal psychotherapy: alone and combined with medication. Maintenance interpersonal psychotherapy for recurrent depression: biological and clinical correlates and future directions. Part V: Psychotherapy With the Medically Ill. Psychotherapeutic intervention with the medically ill. Part VI: Family Therapies. Family therapies: efficacy, indications, and treatment outcomes. New directions in family intervention programs for psychotic patients: implications from expressed emotion research. Part VII: Methodological Considerations in Psychotherapy Research. The relative efficacy of drugs and psychotherapy: methodological considerations. A checklist for developing and reviewing comparative treatment evaluations in the areas of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. Part VIII: Psychotherapy in the Era of Managed Care. Psychotherapy and managed care: compatible or incompatible? Index.
