Psychotherapy As A Developmental Process

Author : Michael Basseches
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135598665
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychotherapy as a Developmental Process written by Michael Basseches and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all those engaged in psychotherapy practice, regardless of modality or approach, the goal of this book is to provide a framework and method for thinking about their work that allows for critical reflection on their own successes and disappointments, and on the similarities and differences among their own and other practitioners’ work with different clients. The authors use a novel "common factors" approach, based on the idea that some form of development is the outcome of all effective psychotherapy, despite other differences that may exist. While most existing psychotherapy research focuses on treatment outcomes, primarily in terms of symptom reduction, this book offers an alternative research approach that systematically tracks the psychotherapy process itself, and describes each case’s unique developmental outcome. In particular, Basseches & Mascolo focus on the questions of what kinds of therapeutic resources therapists are offering to their clients and whether and how clients are able to make use of these resources in the service of their own development. The goal is to provide a descriptive framework that can be used to appreciate the highly varied ways in which particular therapists tailor their work to unique clients’ developmental needs, while at the same time offering a prescription of a more rigorous method for recognizing and correcting the problem when a particular therapist’s way of working is not serving the client well. Ideally, this type of process-focused research will complement existing outcome research, and be more likely than further symptom-reduction studies to result in the improvement of overall psychotherapy success rates.

Author : Stephen R. Shirk
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572300958
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change Processes in Child Psychotherapy written by Stephen R. Shirk and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1996-08-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking work advances a developmental perspective on both the basic processes of therapeutic change and the classification of childhood problems, offering a novel approach to the search for effective treatments for children. Generating a new flow of ideas between clinical practice and empirical research, the volume revitalizes basic modalities such as psychodynamic, play and cognitive therapies by identifying the core ingredients that enhance and retard the processes of change. The authors also demonstrate the limitations of utilizing diagnostic labels as the basis for assessing treatment efficacy, arguing instead for an integrative approach that links methods of intervention with a case-relevant analysis of the child's emotional, interpersonal and cognitive development. This book will appeal to clinical and school psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other clinicians working with children, as well as researchers in the field. It also serves as a text in graduate-level courses on child treatment and child psychopathology.

Author : Boston Change Process Study Group
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393705997
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change Process in Psychotherapy written by Boston Change Process Study Group and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: and knowledge, and as a possible way to illuminate change processes in psychotherapy. Today, developmental researchers and neuroscientists increasingly locate keys to psychological health and development in the earliest interactions between mother and infant." "This book, which consists of significant papers by the BCPSG, traces the group's contributions to psychoanalytic topics of note, including; the location of the implicit, the creation of meaning, the moment-by-moment clinical process, and the subjective experience of the therapist. The book also includes new introductions to selected chapters, which provide background on the original intent and reception of each article." --Book Jacket.

Author : Fred Pine
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300040029
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developmental Theory and Clinical Process written by Fred Pine and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""This treasurehouse of a book glows with contributions to every fundamental aspect of psychoanalysis. Dr. Pine moves with grace and authority between the worlds of child development and clinical process, between abstract theory and the concrete methods and data of child observation, and between classical psychoanalysis and the varieties of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy. His well-chosen clinical examples are models of sensitivity, clarity, and ingenuity. Altogether, a remarkable achievement and a 'must' book for every psychoanalytic reader.""-Roy Schafer

Author : Stephen R. Shirk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489936351
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Development and Child Psychotherapy written by Stephen R. Shirk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like hiking off the well-traveled trail, attempting to bridge foreign do mains of research and practice entails certain risks. This volume repre sents an effort to explore the relatively uncharted territory of cognitive and social-cognitive processes embedded in child psychotherapy. The territory is largely uncharted, not because of a lack of interest in children and cognition, but because child psychotherapy has been chronically neglected by clinical researchers. For example, recent meta-analyses of the effectiveness of child psychotherapy draw on less than 30 non behavioral studies of child psychotherapy conducted over a 30-year period. The average of one study per year pales in comparison to the volume of research on adult psychotherapy. Moreover, research exam ining cognitive, affective, and language processes in child psycho therapy is virtually nonexistent. Consequently, the contributions to this volume should not be seen as reviews of an extant, clinical-research literature. Instead, they represent attempts to expand the more familiar and well-researched province of developmental psychology into the rel atively uncharted domain of child psychotherapy process. In addition to bridging the literature on child psychotherapy with research perspectives on children's cognitive and social-cognitive devel opment, this volume attempts to cross a second gap. Recent surveys of the utilization of psychotherapy research by practicing psychotherapists indicate the distance between these two domains is substantial. Only a small minority of practitioners find psychotherapy research to be a useful source of information for their practice.

Author : Baruch Levine
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Group Psychotherapy written by Baruch Levine and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1979 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William G. Wagner
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counseling, Psychology, and Children written by William G. Wagner and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of "Counseling, Psychology, and Children "takes a multidimensional four-part approach to counseling children. This approach: 1) capitalizes on the relationships children build with parents, teachers, and other adults; 2) looks at children's developmental processes; 3) examines multicultural influences upon them; and 4) takes into consideration the variety of intervention models available. Four chapters examine four major approaches to child therapy: psychodynamic, child-centered, behavioral/cognitive-behavioral, and family systems. In the final synthesizing chapter, the author draws upon his experience as therapist "and" teacher to bring everything together through a case study that shows his multidimensional approach in action. This book covers the use of play as a therapeutic technique and emphasizes thinking outside the box of standard therapy. It encourages future counselors to view treatment as the culmination of education/developmental, preventive, and remedial interventions. For professionals in the field of counseling children.

Author : Sue Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000450430
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Change Process in Psychotherapy During Troubling Times written by Sue Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Change Process in Psychotherapy During Troubling Times invites readers to consider what it is psychotherapists do that leads to change. The book highlights different theoretical approaches, questions old paradigms, and illustrates the change process when working with people facing a range of life challenges such as the survivors of childhood trauma, refugees, and people dealing with traumatic loss. Moving between consideration of micro-moments when working with individual clients and bigger questions about how to promote change in the face of current world problems, it addresses issues that touch us all. At the same time, the book acknowledges the unprecedented challenges in today’s world such as the pace of change, the thousands of displaced people who seek refuge in other countries, the illness and loss caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and the impact of climate change on lifestyles and the environment. The book presents a topical consideration of the relevance of therapeutic assumptions, theories, and practices to current global crises. With the breadth of presenting issues considered and the examples of a variety of creative approaches supporting change, the book will be useful to psychotherapists in practice and in training working in a range of settings with different populations. It will also be of interest to others working in the helping professions.

Author : Ruella Frank
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113506136X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body of Awareness written by Ruella Frank and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merging scientific theory with a practical, clinical approach, Body of Awareness explores the formation of infant movement experience and its manifest influence upon the later adult. Most significantly, it shows how the organizing principles in early development are functionally equivalent to those of the adult. It demonstrates how movement plays a critical role in a developing self-awareness for the infant and in maintaining a healthy self throughout life. In addition, a variety of case studies illustrates how infant developmental movement patterns are part of the moment-to-moment processes of the adult client and how to bring these patterns to awareness within therapy. Body of Awareness is intended to help therapists, new or advanced, to enhance their skills of attunement. They can do this by heightening their observations of subtle movement patterns as they emerge within the client/therapist relationship, and by respective their own developing feelings within session as essential information to the therapy process. And as developmental patterns are central to psychological functioning, a background study of movement provides the therapist with critical insight into the unfolding psychodynamic field.

Author : Richard Lasky
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780876685655
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Development and the Therapeutic Process written by Richard Lasky and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the psychoanalytic model of mental funtioning, including developmental, object-relational and conflict theories. The author provides an examination of the rationale behind the psychoanalytic clinical method and, using case studies, shows how an analysis is conducted.