Transforming the Internal World and Attachment: Clinical Applications: Vol 2

Goodman, Geoff

ISBN 10: 0765707098 / ISBN 13: 9780765707093

Published by Jason Aronson Inc, 2009

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2nd edition. 210 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transforming the Internal World and Attachment: Clinical Applications: Vol 2
• Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765707098
• ISBN 13: 9780765707093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.45 kilograms

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Synopsis

Transforming the Internal World and Attachment reviews and discusses four theories about what makes psychotherapy effective across forms of treatment, treatment settings, and diagnostic categories: mindfulness, mentalization, psychological mindedness, and the attachment relationship. Geoff Goodman offers some provisional hypotheses about therapeutic effectiveness and suggests some ways of testing these hypotheses empirically, using sophisticated assessment instruments that measure psychotherapy process and outcome. Managed-care companies are withholding reimbursements for treatments not considered "empirically supported." Instead of engaging in horse races with randomized controlled trials (RCTs), Geoff Goodman suggests that we need to establish an empirical basis for the therapeutic effectiveness of all forms of treatment, move beyond examining common factors such as the therapeutic alliance, and turn our collective attention to common factors that psychotherapy researchers often erroneously promote as specific factors. Perhaps these so-called specific factors produce therapeutic change regardless of the brand-name treatment packages through which they are typically delivered. These specific factors might also work better for particular groups of patients with specific problem areas such as affect dysregulation and impulsivity. In Volume II, Goodman demonstrates how these specific factors can be implemented in a variety of therapeutic settings with a variety of patients.

About the Author

Geoff Goodman, PhD, is associate professor of psychology at Long Island University. He is also a licensed clinical and school psychologist with a private practice in Manhattan and New City, New York, and is certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He is the author of more than a dozen articles on the development of psychopathology in high-risk infants, children, and adults, as well as The Internal World and Attachment (2002).