Description
The best health practices are a synthesis of science and art. Surgery is a case in point. Although all competent surgeons follow scientific protocols, the best surgeons are masters of the art of surgery and produce better outcomes: e.g., smaller incisions; lower mortality rates. Psychotherapists are in exactly the same position. Psychotherapy is both a science and an art. There are excellent resources that convey information about empirically supported practices — the science of psychotherapy. However, this scientific information is incomplete in two important ways. It does not cover key matters that come up in psychotherapy (e.g., building a therapeutic relationship, resistance, termination), and it often does not fully cover the "art" of implementing these techniques, the nuances, the creative ways, the problem solving strategies when difficulties arise. This book is an attempt to have high profile, expert, "master" therapists discuss the art of handling these key issues.
Readership
This book will be useful both as a basic text for all mental health professions and useful to practitioners as this book covers the key difficulties that practicing clinicians face every day in their practices.
Clinical Strategies for Becoming a Master Psychotherapist, 1st Edition
1. The Art and Science of Psychotherapy
William O'Donohue, Nicholas Cummings, Janet Cummings2. Enhancing Client Motivation to Change
Paula L. Wilbourne, Eric R. Levensky3. The Therapeutic Alliance: Cultivating and Negotiating the Therapeutic Relationship
Jeremy D. Safran, J. Christopher Muran, Michael Rothman4. Narrative Psychotherapy as Effective Story-Making: An Introduction
Lois Parker5. Recognizing and Dealing with Cultural Influences in Psychotherapy
Melanie P. Duckworth, Tony Iezzi6. Effective Understanding and Dealing with Manipulation
Michael G. Wetter, Jack Wetter7. Recognizing and Dealing with Transference
George Stricker8. The Temporal Structure of Therapy: Key Questions often Associated with Different Phases of Sessions and Treatments (Plus Twenty-one Helpful Hints)
Michael F. Hoyt9. Resistance as an Ally in Psychotherapy
Nicholas A. Cummings10. Enhancing Psychotherapy through Appropriate Entry Points
Nicholas A. Cummings, Janet L. Cummings11. Dealing with Feelings of Depression
Alvin R. Mahrer12. Designing and Assigning Effective Homework
Richard Kamins13. Skills Training: How the Master Clinician Understands and Teaches Competencies
William O'Donohue14. Using Tasks in Ericksonian Psychotherapy
Jeffrey K. Zeig15. Using Acceptance in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
Christopher R. Matell, David Atkins16. Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Goes to Hollywood: The Treatment of Performance Anxiety in Cinema
Leigh McCullough, Kristin A. R. Osborn17. The Importance of Novelty in Psychotherapy
Brett N. Steenbarger18. Interruption Replaces Termination in Focused, Intermittent Psychoterapy throughout the Life Cycle
Nicholas A. Cummings19. Suicidal Patients: The Ultimate Challenge for Master Psychotherapists
Janet L. Cummings
