Systematic Treatment Selection: Toward Targeted Therapeutic Interventions / Edition 1

by Larry E. Beutler, John F. Clarkin

Overview

This essential guide to the prescriptive selection of psychosocial interventions is founded on a research-based model that sequentially considers patient dimensions, environments, settings, therapists, and therapies. It covers the development of a prescriptive decision model, patient predisposing variables, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780876305768
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/1990
Series:	Brunner/Mazel Integrative Psychotherapy Series , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Larry E. Beutler, John F. Clarkin

Table of Contents

1: Background and Introduction; 1: Introduction; 2: A Model of Differential Treatment Selection; 2: Patient Predisposing Variables; 3: Diagnostic Considerations; 4: Patient Personal Characteristics; 5: Environments and Circumstances; 3: The Treatment Context; 6: The Treatment Setting; 7: Treatment Mode and Format; 8: Treatment Frequency and Duration; 4: Relationship Variables; 9: Therapist-Patient Personal Compatibility; 10: Enhancing and Maintaining the Therapeutic Alliance; 5: Tailoring Strategies and Techniques; 11: Selecting Focal Targets of Change; 12: Selecting the Level of Intervention and the Mediating Goals of Psychotherapy; 13: Conducting Therapeutic Work; 6: Training Directions; 14: Training in Differential Treatment Selection

Editorial Reviews

The authors present a model for selection of psychological treatment that sequentially considers patient dimensions, environments, settings, therapists, and therapies. What is usually an intuitive process is here put in a framework that can help clinicians make the necessary choices. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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