Clinical Strategies for Becoming a Master Psychotherapist
- 1st Edition - January 24, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: William O'Donohue, Nicholas A. Cummings
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 0 8 8 4 1 6 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 7 6 5 6 - 8
The best health practices are a synthesis of science and art. Surgery is a case in point. Although all competent surgeons follow scientific protocols, the best surgeons are masters… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe best health practices are a synthesis of science and art. Surgery is a case in point. Although all competent surgeons follow scientific protocols, the best surgeons are masters of the art of surgery and produce better outcomes: e.g., smaller incisions; lower mortality rates. Psychotherapists are in exactly the same position. Psychotherapy is both a science and an art. There are excellent resources that convey information about empirically supported practices — the science of psychotherapy. However, this scientific information is incomplete in two important ways. It does not cover key matters that come up in psychotherapy (e.g., building a therapeutic relationship, resistance, termination), and it often does not fully cover the "art" of implementing these techniques, the nuances, the creative ways, the problem solving strategies when difficulties arise. This book is an attempt to have high profile, expert, "master" therapists discuss the art of handling these key issues.
This book will be useful both as a basic text for all mental health professions and useful to practitioners as this book covers the key difficulties that practicing clinicians face every day in their practices.
1. The Art and Science of Psychotherapy
William O'Donohue, Nicholas Cummings, Janet Cummings
2. Enhancing Client Motivation to Change
Paula L. Wilbourne, Eric R. Levensky
3. The Therapeutic Alliance: Cultivating and Negotiating the Therapeutic Relationship
Jeremy D. Safran, J. Christopher Muran, Michael Rothman
4. Narrative Psychotherapy as Effective Story-Making: An Introduction
Lois Parker
5. Recognizing and Dealing with Cultural Influences in Psychotherapy
Melanie P. Duckworth, Tony Iezzi
6. Effective Understanding and Dealing with Manipulation
Michael G. Wetter, Jack Wetter
7. Recognizing and Dealing with Transference
George Stricker
8. The Temporal Structure of Therapy: Key Questions often Associated with Different Phases of Sessions and Treatments (Plus Twenty-one Helpful Hints)
Michael F. Hoyt
9. Resistance as an Ally in Psychotherapy
Nicholas A. Cummings
10. Enhancing Psychotherapy through Appropriate Entry Points
Nicholas A. Cummings, Janet L. Cummings
11. Dealing with Feelings of Depression
Alvin R. Mahrer
12. Designing and Assigning Effective Homework
Richard Kamins
13. Skills Training: How the Master Clinician Understands and Teaches Competencies
William O'Donohue
14. Using Tasks in Ericksonian Psychotherapy
Jeffrey K. Zeig
15. Using Acceptance in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
Christopher R. Matell, David Atkins
16. Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Goes to Hollywood: The Treatment of Performance Anxiety in Cinema
Leigh McCullough, Kristin A. R. Osborn
17. The Importance of Novelty in Psychotherapy
Brett N. Steenbarger
18. Interruption Replaces Termination in Focused, Intermittent Psychoterapy throughout the Life Cycle
Nicholas A. Cummings
19. Suicidal Patients: The Ultimate Challenge for Master Psychotherapists
Janet L. Cummings
William O'Donohue, Nicholas Cummings, Janet Cummings
2. Enhancing Client Motivation to Change
Paula L. Wilbourne, Eric R. Levensky
3. The Therapeutic Alliance: Cultivating and Negotiating the Therapeutic Relationship
Jeremy D. Safran, J. Christopher Muran, Michael Rothman
4. Narrative Psychotherapy as Effective Story-Making: An Introduction
Lois Parker
5. Recognizing and Dealing with Cultural Influences in Psychotherapy
Melanie P. Duckworth, Tony Iezzi
6. Effective Understanding and Dealing with Manipulation
Michael G. Wetter, Jack Wetter
7. Recognizing and Dealing with Transference
George Stricker
8. The Temporal Structure of Therapy: Key Questions often Associated with Different Phases of Sessions and Treatments (Plus Twenty-one Helpful Hints)
Michael F. Hoyt
9. Resistance as an Ally in Psychotherapy
Nicholas A. Cummings
10. Enhancing Psychotherapy through Appropriate Entry Points
Nicholas A. Cummings, Janet L. Cummings
11. Dealing with Feelings of Depression
Alvin R. Mahrer
12. Designing and Assigning Effective Homework
Richard Kamins
13. Skills Training: How the Master Clinician Understands and Teaches Competencies
William O'Donohue
14. Using Tasks in Ericksonian Psychotherapy
Jeffrey K. Zeig
15. Using Acceptance in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
Christopher R. Matell, David Atkins
16. Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Goes to Hollywood: The Treatment of Performance Anxiety in Cinema
Leigh McCullough, Kristin A. R. Osborn
17. The Importance of Novelty in Psychotherapy
Brett N. Steenbarger
18. Interruption Replaces Termination in Focused, Intermittent Psychoterapy throughout the Life Cycle
Nicholas A. Cummings
19. Suicidal Patients: The Ultimate Challenge for Master Psychotherapists
Janet L. Cummings
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 24, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 368
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780120884162
- eBook ISBN: 9780080476568
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William O'Donohue
William O'Donohue is the Nicholas Cummings Professor of Organized Behavioral Healthcare at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Philosophy. He has authored over 100 articles and chapters and co-edited more than 15 books.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Nevada, Reno, USANC
Nicholas A. Cummings
Nicholas A. Cummings, Ph.D., Sc.D. is the President of the Foundation for Behavioral Health and Chairman of the Nicholas & Dorothy Cummings Foundation, Inc. He was the founding CEO of American Biodyne (MedCo/Merck, then Merit, now Magellan Behavioral Care). He is also the former President of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Cummings was the founder of the four campuses of the California School of Professional Psychology, the National Academies of Practice, the American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association, and the National Council of Professional Schools of Psychology. He was also the Chief Psychologist (Retired) at Kaiser Permanente. He was the former Executive Director of the Mental Research Institute. Currently, Dr. Cummings is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Janet L. Cummings, PsyD., is President of the Nicholas & Dorothy Cummings Foudation, Inc., and former staff psychologist at American Biodyne (MedCo, now Merit Behavorial Care). She earned her Doctorate at the School of Professional Psychology, Wright State University, 1992.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Chair in Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno; Chair, Board of Directors of The Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Foundation, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ, USA
President, The Nicholas & Dorothy Cummings Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.A.Read Clinical Strategies for Becoming a Master Psychotherapist on ScienceDirect