Cengage Advantage Books: Systems of Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Analysis

Prochaska, James O.; Norcross, John C.

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9781285176024: Cengage Advantage Books: Systems of Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Analysis

ISBN 10: 1285176022 ISBN 13: 9781285176024

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2013

Comprehensive, systematic, and balanced, SYSTEMS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY 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 Eighth Edition thoroughly analyzes 17 leading systems of psychotherapy and briefly surveys another 31, thereby providing a broader scope than is available in most books. The authors explore each system's theory of personality, theory of psychopathology, and resulting therapeutic process and therapy 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.

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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).

Review:

1. Defining and Comparing the Psychotherapies. 2. Psychoanalytic Therapies. 3. Psychodynamic Therapies. 4. Existential Therapies. 5. Person-Centered Therapies. 6. Experiential Therapies. 7. Interpersonal Therapies. 8. Exposure Therapies. 9. Behavior Therapies. 10. Cognitive Therapies. 11. Third-Wave Therapies. 12. Systemic Therapies. 13. Gender-Sensitive Therapies. 14. Multicultural Therapies. 15. Constructivist Therapies. 15. Integrative Therapies. 17. Comparative Conclusions. 18. The Future of Psychotherapy. Appendix: Alternative Table of Contents.

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