Langbeschreibung
The second edition of The Great Psychotherapy Debate has been updated and revised to include: a history of healing practices, medicine, and psychotherapy, meta-analysis of child psychological treatments in real world settings, a discussion of cultural factors, a comparison of pharmacological treatments and their effectiveness, a discussion of current movements in the field, and an expanded treatment on common factors such as empathy, expectations, patient motivation and involvement, and the working alliance between the therapist and client.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface 1. History of Medicine, Methods and Psychotherapy: Progress and Omissions 2. The Contextual Model: Psychotherapy as a Socially Situated Healing Practice 3. Contextual Model Versus Medical Model: Choosing a Progressive Research Programme 4. Absolute Efficacy: The Benefits of Psychotherapy Established by Meta-analysis 5. Relative Efficacy: The Dodo Bird Still Gets It 6. Therapist Effects: An Ignored by Critical Factor 7. General Effects: Surviving Challenges and Anticipating Additional Evidence 8: Specific Effects: Where Are They? 9. Beyond the Debate: Implications of the Research Synthesis for Theory, Policy, and Practice