Description
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. This volume is key in that it translates scholarly findings about established and new approaches into relevant therapeutic implications. This book is an excellent text for advanced courses in psychotherapy and counselling practice and theory. Practitioners who want to acquaint themselves or re-evaluate many of the methods in psychotherapy will also find this valuable. 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
