Systems of Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Analysis (Ise) - Softcover

John C. Norcross; James O. Prochaska

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495009474 ISBN 13: 9780495009474

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2006

Synopsis

Systematic and balanced, this comprehensive text uses a wealth of clinical case illustrations to help readers understand a wide variety of psychotherapies including psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, existential, person-centered, experiential, interpersonal, exposure, behavioral, cognitive, systemic, multicultural, and integrative. The Sixth Edition thoroughly analyzes 15 leading systems of psychotherapy and briefly surveys another 30, thus providing a broader scope than is available in most textbooks. Prochaska and Norcross explore each system's theory of personality, theory of psychopathology, and resulting therapeutic process and relationship. By doing so, they demonstrate how much psychotherapy systems agree on the processes producing change, while showing how they disagree on the content that needs to be changed. To bring these similarities and differences to life, the authors also present the limitations, practicalities, and outcome research of each system of psychotherapy.

About this title

About the Author

James O. Prochaska, PhD, is professor of psychology and director of the Cancer Prevention Research Consortium at the University of Rhode Island and a clinical psychologist in part-time private practice. He has been the principal investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling over $75 million and has been recognized by the American Psychological Society as one of the five most-cited authors in psychology. His 30 book chapters and over 200 scholarly articles focus on self-change, health promotion, and psychotherapy from a transtheoretical perspective, the subject of his popular book, CHANGING FOR GOOD (with John Norcross and Carlo DiClemente).

John C. Norcross, PhD, is professor and former chair of psychology as well as distinguished university fellow at the University of Scranton, and a clinical psychologist in part-time independent practice. Author of more than 250 scholarly articles, Dr. Norcross has written or edited 15 books, the most recent being EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES IN MENTAL HEALTH and PSYCHOTHERAPY RELATIONSHIPS THAT WORK. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session. Among his awards are APA's Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training Award, Pennsylvania Professor of the Year from the Carnegie Foundation, and election to the National Academies of Practice.

Review

Systems of Psychotherapy covers, in a scholarly and balanced manner, a wide range of theories and methods -- which is what we sorely need. When using the third edition of this book in one of my graduate courses, the students gave me an A+ for assigning this wide ranging and stimulating book.

"In the confusing multiplicity of psychotherapeutic orientations, there is nothing better, more revealing, or more entertaining than letting orientations point out their differences with each other. That is the strategy that Prochaska and Norcross perfect in the Fourth Edition of their Systems of Psychotherapy."

"This is a well-written, thorough assessment of the most commonly used approaches to counseling and psychotherapy. The text presents the strengths and limitations of each theory with insight and candor ... and helps to demystify the topics in the theoretical chapters. This text is an essential resource for anyone who teaches courses in the areas of counseling and psychotherapy."

"The best book on the market for the study of psychotherapy. A must for beginning through intermediate levels of psychotherapy training. . . . The minicase illustrations are very clarifying. Difficult concepts are described not only in understandable vocabulary patterns, but in a systematic way. Most texts are not systematically written because many authors don't think systematically. Prochaska and Norcross do."

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0495009474
• ISBN 13: 9780495009474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656