Changing Expectations
Key to Effective Psychotherapy
Published on 31. January 1998
Book
Hardback
302 pages
978-0-534-12648-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book should be of interest to a resource text for practitioners in psychotherapy and counselling.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 235 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-12648-3 (9780534126483)
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Content
Part One: Response expectancy theory. Expectancy, experience and behavior. The power of placebos. Psychotherapy and the placebo effect. Part Two: Specific treatment for specific problems. Systematic desensitization: the first specific psychotherapy. When there is nothing to fear but fear itself. Being depressed about depression. A clinician's guide to expectancy modification. Part Three: Hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Demystifying hypnosis. An expectancy model of hypnosis. Hypnotherapy: clinical applications of the expectancy model. Part Four: Causal mechanisms. How expectancy produces change. Index.