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- Practical and accessibly written
- Surveys and compares a range of psychotherapy treatments
- Provides integrative system across therapeutic modalities
- Demonstrates how to choose appropriate therapies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Psychotherapy today encompasses a broad spectrum of approaches that focus to a varying extent on psychophysiological, behavioral, environmental, or other aspects of human problems. Despite the overlap that exists between many of these approaches, there is no method that integrates more than a few of these aspects. It is therefore important to understand the inherent advantages and disadvantages of each therapy system, and how each helps people to solve their problems.
Systems of Psychotherapy: Dialectical Tensions and Integration provides an in-depth overview of the major therapeutic systems in practice today and outlines the philosophical differences and opportunities for integration among them. This volume also considers the new ideas and approaches to therapy stemming from the postmodernist and integrative movements. By highlighting the unique merits of each system, readers are encouraged to combine factors present in the various systems to create a comprehensive view of human nature and functioning that will improve therapeutic outcomes.
Topics covered in this volume include:
•Empirical foundations of psychotherapy
•Treatment planning and the initial interview
•Psychopharmacology
•Cognitive-Behavioral interventions
•Humanistic approaches
•Interpersonal approaches
•Family systems and couples approaches
•Ecosystemic interventions
Systems of Psychotherapy is an educational text which spans historical and contemporary issues in psychotherapy and is an ideal reference for students of clinical, counseling, and school psychology, psychiatric residents, and graduate students in clinical social work.
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“This book explains the major systems of psychotherapy, reviewing the philosophical differences and showing how they can be integrated. … a reference for students of clinical, counseling, and school psychology, psychiatric residents, and graduate students in clinical social work. … The clinical illustrations are excellent and show how to apply the theoretical tenets. It is a book that new therapists will greatly benefit from. … seasoned veterans will be able to refresh their knowledge base as well.” (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody’s Review Service, May, 2011)Authors and Affiliations
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School of Professional Psychology, Pacific University, Hillsboro, USA
Donald K. Fromme
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Systems of Psychotherapy
Book Subtitle: Dialectical Tensions and Integration
Authors: Donald K. Fromme
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7308-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7307-8
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8698-6
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7308-5
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 550
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Work