Doing Psychotherapy Effectively
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/1998
Mona Sue Weissmark and Daniel A. Giacomo offer a unique mode of evaluation that focuses not on a particular school of therapy but on the relationship between therapist and patient. Their approach, the "Harvard Psychotherapy Coding Method", begins with the assumption that good therapeutic relationships are far from intuitive. Successful relationships follow a pattern of behaviors that can be identified and quantified, as the authors demonstrate through clinical research and videotaped sessions of expert therapists. Likewise, positive changes in the patient, observed through client feedback and case studies, can be described operationally; they involve the process of overcoming feelings of detachment, helplessness, and rigidity and becoming more involved, effective, and adaptable.
Weissmark and Giacomo explain and ground these principles in the practice of psychotherapy, making "Doing Psychotherapy Effectively" an accessible and pragmatic work that will give readers a tool for measuring therapeutic effectiveness and further understanding human transformation. For the first time, successful therapy is described in a way that can be practiced and communicated.
"A thoughtful and provocative book onthe complex processes of psychotherapy". -- Jerome Kagan, Author of Galen's Prophecy: Temperament in Human Nature
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