Brief But Comprehensive Psychotherapy: The Multimodal Way (Springer Series on Behavior Therapy and Behavioral Medicine) - Softcover

Lazarus PhD ABPP, Arnold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826102735 ISBN 13: 9780826102737

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2006

Synopsis

The current healthcare environment has created a need for short-term, time-limited, cost-effective and brief forms of psychotherapy, emphasizing efficiency and efficacy. The central message is "don't waste time." But how can one be brief and also comprehensive?

In his latest addition to the psychotherapy literature, the renowned Arnold Lazarus modernizes his eclectic and goal-oriented approach to psychotherapy. Dr. Lazarus employs and transcends customary methods of diagnosis and treatment by providing several distinctive assessment procedures and therapeutic recommendations. Using his traditional acronym--BASIC ID--he stresses the assessment of seven dimensions of a client's personality:

Behavior
Affect
Sensation
Imagery
Cognition
Interpersonal relationships
(the need for) Drugs

This volume contains many ideas that will augment and enhance the skills and clinical repertoires of every therapist.

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From the Publisher

"Brief multimodal therapy is behavior therapy in one of its most advanced forms. It is efficient, effective, teachable, demonstratably valid, and comprehensive without being rigid." -From the Foreword by Cyril M. Franks, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University

"Arnold Lazarus offers a thoughtful, highly practical framework for applying a broad range of specific technical interventions-an approach that should be most welcome in todays managed care environment. I especially liked his well-illustrated combination of conceptual rigor and trenchant, humanistic common sense." -Michael Hoyt, PhD, Author, Brief Therapy and Managed Care, Editor, Constructive Therapies, Vols. 1 & 2

"Brief But Comprehensive Psychotherapy: The Multimodal Way substantially advances the practice of short-term psychotherapy. Dr. Lazarus distills his many years of experience as a master clinician and teacher and outlines the fundamentals of multimodal therapy in an exciting and readable fashion. The text is presented with Dr. Lazarus' usual lucid style with many illustrative case excerpts and examples. I highly recommend this volume to everybody in the mental health field, from students to advanced psychotherapists." -Aaron T. Beck, MD, University Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

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Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0826102735
• ISBN 13: 9780826102737
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192