Critical Issues in Psychotherapy: Translating New Ideas into Practice

by Brent D. Slife, Richard N. Williams, Sally H. Barlow

Overview

Critical Issues in Psychotherapy examines new and existing models in psychotherapy and presents them in an accessible manner to the practitioner in training through illustrative therapy cases and practitioner commentaries. There are many new models that have emerged in psychotherapy in recent years; however; they have not often been made accessible to front line practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761920816
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/28/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard N. Williams is founding Director of the Wheatley Institution. From 2001 through 2008, he served as an Associate Academic Vice President for Faculty and Professor in the department of Psychology at Brigham Young University. His specialty areas include the philosophical, theoretical and historical foundations of psychology, with concentration on issues related to human agency, as well the science of psychology and research methods and statistics. Williams has authored, co-authored, or edited numerous journal, articles, and books. He has been a visiting faculty member at Duquesne University and at Georgetown University. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University in Psychological Science and is a summa cum laude graduate of Brigham Young University. Williams and his wife Camille have 5 children and 18 grandchildren. Click here to see a full professional curriculum vitae.

Sally H. Barlow, Ph.D., has taught in the Psychology Department at Brigham Young University for 33 years where she received the Karl Maeser Award for Excellence in teaching. She has co-edited 2 books, and authored a third, published many articles and books chapters. An international expert in group psychotherapy, she has conducted workshops all over the world, and has served in a number of positions in professional organizations promoting the evidence-based practice of psychology.

Table of Contents

Issue 1
Empirically Supported Treatments
What's a Non-Behaviorist to Do? - Marian S Bergin
Commentary
Issue 2
Assessment - Constance T Fisher
Psychological Assessment
From Objectification Back to the Life World - Steven Lars Nielsen
Commentary
Issue 3
Biologization of Psychotherapy - Richard N Williams
The Biologization of Psychotherapy
Understanding the Nature of Influence - Louis A Moench
Commentator
Issue 4
Spirituality - Sally H Barlow and Allen E Bergin
The Phenomenon of Spirit in a Secular Psychotherapy - Lorna Smith Benjamin
Commentary
Issue 5
Culture - Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand
Psychotherapy as an Instrument of Culture - Lynne A Bennion
Commentary
Issue 6
Managed Care - David E Polkinghorne
Managed Care Programs
What Do Clinicians Need? - Lynne D Johnson
Commentator
Issue 7
Individualism - Frank C Richardson
Individualism and Modern Psychotherapy - Judy Norman
Commentary
Issue 8
Scientist-Practitioner Model - Hendrika Vande Kemp
The Patient-Philosopher Evaluates the Scientist-Practitioner
A Case Study - James M Harper
Commentary
Issue 9
Free Will//Determinism - Joseph F Rychlak
Psychotherapy as Practical Teleology
Viewing the Person as an Agent - Diane L Spangler
Commentary
Issue 10
Eclecticism - Brent D Slife and Jeffrey Reber
Eclecticism in Psychotherapy
Is It Really the Best Substitute for Traditional Theories? - Ted Packard and Kay Packard
Commentator
Issue 11
Postmodernism - Barbara S Held
What it Means for Psychotherapy - And What It Doesn't - Amy Fisher-Smith
Commentary
Issue 12
Multiculturalism - Blaine J Fowers
Culture, Identity and Loyalty
New Pathways for a Culturally Aware Psychotherapy - Agnes M Plenck
Commentator
Issue 13
Diagnosis - Robert L Woolfolk
Objectivity in Diagnosis and Treatment
A Philosophical Analysis - Daniel K Judd
Commentary
Issue 14
Feminism - Jeanne Marecek
Bringing Feminist Issues to Therapy - Marybeth Raynes
Commentary
Conclusion - Daniel Robinson
The Values of Psychotherapy

Editorial Reviews

"The contributors are an esteemed group that have played significant roles in shaping contemporary understanding of the issues they will be addressing. The number of chapters coincides with the number of weeks in a typical semester, increasing its use as a course text."

Brain Vandenberg

Researchers and practitioners, a great many of them from Utah, consider 15 non-empirical questions facing the profession, and colleagues comment on their contributions. Their topics include assessment, the biologization of psychotherapy, spirituality, free will versus determinism, eclecticism, postmodernism, and feminism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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