Unifying Effective Psychotherapies
Tracing the Process of Change
Will be published approx. on 13. February 2018
Book
Hardback
309 pages
978-1-4338-2867-6 (ISBN)
Description
Mental health professionals have long debated what makes effective psychotherapy work. Is it a specific treatment modality, or a set of common factors such as a strong therapeutic relationship? In this book, J. Scott Fraser argues that both perspectives are correct. His transtheoretical, transdiagnostic framework identifies the process of change that underlies all effective treatments.
From this viewpoint, all client problems boil down to negative, recurring cycles of thought and behavior. The goal of psychotherapy is to disrupt or reverse those cycles. While successful treatment requires common factors linked with specific interventions, these components must be embedded in a therapeutic rationale that implies a direction for treatment. There are many possible amp ldquo correct amp rdquo rationales, so finding the one that best fits the client and therapist is the task of treatment planning. The book uses varied and compelling case examples, featuring different client problems and treatments, to illustrate a common process of change.
Both philosophically rich and highly practical, this book helps readers understand the complexity and promise of psychotherapy.
From this viewpoint, all client problems boil down to negative, recurring cycles of thought and behavior. The goal of psychotherapy is to disrupt or reverse those cycles. While successful treatment requires common factors linked with specific interventions, these components must be embedded in a therapeutic rationale that implies a direction for treatment. There are many possible amp ldquo correct amp rdquo rationales, so finding the one that best fits the client and therapist is the task of treatment planning. The book uses varied and compelling case examples, featuring different client problems and treatments, to illustrate a common process of change.
Both philosophically rich and highly practical, this book helps readers understand the complexity and promise of psychotherapy.
Reviews / Votes
Fraser offers a truly integrative and satisfying approach to the contentious and messy debate over specific treatments versus common factors by focusing on processes that can be linked to unique problems, relationships, and therapeutic situations. Practitioners, trainees, and treatment researchers alike will benefit from reading this engaging and remarkable text.- Timothy Anderson, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, Athens Replete with clinical wisdom, analytic clarity, and scholarly grounding, this volume is a creative tour de force. We will be exploring the implications of Fraser's process orientation to therapy for years to come.
- Kenneth J. Gergen, PhD, Senior Research Professor, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; author of Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community In this marvelous book, Fraser synthesizes a lifetime of research on the underlying principles for psychotherapy, culminating in this insightful process-centered view that emphasizes context. Covering a variety of problems ranging from anxiety and depression to couple and family difficulties, the author provides a glimpse into the future of psychotherapy.
- Jay L. Lebow, PhD, ABPP, Senior Scholar and Senior Therapist, Family Institute at Northwestern and Northwestern University, Evanston, IL This one-of-a-kind therapy training text unifies specific empirically validated psychotherapies, including treatments for mood disorders and interpersonal problems, and fully integrates them with the process of change. It then translates this process into clinical practice. This will be an excellent resource for students who are planning to become counselors.
- Toni Zimmerman, PhD, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 259 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4338-2867-6 (9781433828676)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
J. Scott Fraser, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with nearly 4 years of clinical practice, supervision, training, and academic teaching. He has served as director of internship training, associate dean, and director of clinical training and as professor of clinical psychology in the nationally ranked and pioneering doctoral program at the School of Professional Psychology at the Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Before that, he was director of a crisis/brief therapy center in a large general hospital setting for 4 years. He is a Diplomate in Family Therapy through the American Board of Professional Psychology and an approved supervisor in the founders amp rsquo track of the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy. Dr. Fraser has presented and trained therapists in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and his recent writing focuses on integrating evidence-based approaches to psychotherapy. A compantion DVD titled The Process of Change in Integrative Psychotherapy, which uses the process model described in this book, is also available from APA in the Systems of Psychotherapy Video Series. Dr. Fraser coauthored Integrative Families and Systems Treatment (I-FAST): A Strengths-Based Common Factors Approach (2 4), which represents the first research-based manual for teaching and practicing a moderated common factors approach to at-risk youth and families in community settings. His related book, coauthored with Andrew D. Solovey, Second-Order Change in Psychotherapy: The Golden Thread That Unifies Effective Treatments (2 7), applies this integrative model across all evidence-supported approaches to psychotherapy. Now serving as emeritus professor, Dr. Fraser continues to write, train, and supervise through these models.
Content
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
Part I: Searching for What Works in Psychotherapy
Chapter : The Evolution From Empirically Supported Therapies to Evidence-Based Practices
Chapter 2: Changing Paradigms: What amp rsquo s in a Point of View?
Chapter 3: Change
Chapter 4: Process and Systems
Chapter 5: Context
Part II: Applying the Process Perspective to Specific Client Problems
Chapter : Anxiety
Chapter 7: Depression
Chapter 8: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 9: Couple Problems
Chapter : Family System Problems
Part III: From Process to Practice
Chapter : The Process of Change in Clinical Context
References
Index
About the Author
Prologue
Introduction
Part I: Searching for What Works in Psychotherapy
Chapter : The Evolution From Empirically Supported Therapies to Evidence-Based Practices
Chapter 2: Changing Paradigms: What amp rsquo s in a Point of View?
Chapter 3: Change
Chapter 4: Process and Systems
Chapter 5: Context
Part II: Applying the Process Perspective to Specific Client Problems
Chapter : Anxiety
Chapter 7: Depression
Chapter 8: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 9: Couple Problems
Chapter : Family System Problems
Part III: From Process to Practice
Chapter : The Process of Change in Clinical Context
References
Index
About the Author