Core Processes in Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Advancing Effective Practice (Hardcover)
by
Denise P. Charman (Editor)
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Book Description
Many students enter graduate programs with little or no experience of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Efforts to impart clinical skills have often been less than systematic and beginning psychotherapists have not always been encouraged to think about what they are doing and why they are doing it from a scientific standpoint.
Thoughtfully building on current debates over efficacy and effectiveness, this book outlines a promising approach to training in which the work of therapy is divided into tasks patterned after Luborsky's influential delineation of "curative factors"--significant developments in the course of the therapy that are crucial for effective change. Each task step for the therapist-cognitive, behavioral, affective, or a combination--is analyzed, taught separately, and then put in sequence with the other task steps. Curative factors have been extensively studied in recent years and the approach rests on a solid empirical base.
In a climate of increased accountability, clinicians must demonstrate that they are responding to providers' requests to conduct evidence-based practices.
Core Processes in Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy will be an invaluable resource not only for students and trainees, but for established therapists who find themselves asked to justify their work.
Contents
List of Contributors v
Preface xi
PART I: INITIATING AND ASSESSING SUITABILITY FOR BRIEF PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
1. Effective Psychotherapy and Effective Psychotherapists 3
Denise P. Charman
2. Optimizing Outcome Through Prediction and Measurement 23
of Psychological Functioning Michael J. Lambert, Robert D. Hunt, and David A. Vermeersch
3. The First Interview 47
Bonnie A. Rudolph
4. Assessing Patient Capacities for Therapy: Psychological- 69
Mindedness and Quality of Object Relations Anthony S. Joyce and Mary McCallum
PART II: DETERMINING AND MAINTAINING A FOCUS
5. Outcomes and Factors Related to Efficacy of Brief 103
Psychodynamic Therapy Stanley B. Messer and Amelia H. Kaplan
6. Case Formulation: Determining the Focus in Brief Dynamic 119
Psychotherapy Tracy D. Eells and Kenneth G. Lombart
7. Constructing Interpretations and Assessing Their Accuracy 145
Mary Beth Connolly Gibbons, Paul Crits-Christoph, and Phillip Apostol
8. The Evidence: Transference Interpretations and Patient Outcomes— 165
A Comparison of “Types” of Patients John Ogrodniczuk and William Piper
PART III: KEEPING AN EYE ON THE RELATIONSHIP
9. Defining and Identifying Alliance Ruptures 187
Lisa Wallner Samstag, J. Christopher Muran,and Jeremy D. Safran
10. The Power of Ground Rules 215
Robert Langs
11. Countertransference and Its Management in Brief 231
Dynamic Therapy Charles J. Gelso
12. Maintaining the Therapeutic Alliance: Resolving Alliance- 251
Threatening Interactions Related to the Transference Dawn Bennett and Glenys Parry
PART IV: ENDING AND EVALUATING
13. Ending Therapy: Processes and Outcomes 275
Denise P. Charman and Anne C. Graham
14. Termination, Posttermination, and Internalization of Therapy 289
and the Therapist: Internal Representation and Psychotherapy Outcome Elizabeth G. Arnold, Barry A. Farber, and Jesse D. Geller
15. Measuring Clinically Significant Change 309
Michael J. Lambert and Ted P. Asay
PART V: SPECIAL ISSUES
16. Critical Factors in Supervision: The Patient, the Therapist, 325
and the Supervisor Susan Allstetter Neufeldt
17. The Ethical Challenges of Brief Therapy 343
Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel
18. Curative Factors in Work With Older Adults 343
Michael Duffy
APPENDIX The Case Study: The Therapy, the Patient, 383
and the Therapist Jackie Fosbury
Author Index 401
Subject Index 415
Product Details
- Hardcover: 440 pages
- Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1 edition (September 1, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0805840672
- ISBN-13: 978-0805840674
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
