Description
This brief primer provides knowledge that will reduce therapists’ initial anxiety and heighten their competence in working with outpatients; it covers psychotherapeutic techniques, uses of psychotropic medication, and pertinent issues from the expanding field of therapy research, and includes advice about what to do and what not to do. Thomas E. Steele, M.D., is professor of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.
