Overview
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Richard A. Wells
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School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
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Vincent J. Giannetti
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School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Introduction
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- Richard A. Wells, Phillip A. Phelps
Pages 3-26
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Technical Issues
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- Jose Szapocznik, Angel Perez-Vidal, Olga Hervis, Andrew L. Brickman, William M. Kurtines
Pages 93-114
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- Rona L. Levy, John L. Shelton
Pages 145-163
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- Robert Rosenbaum, Michael F. Hoyt, Moshe Talmon
Pages 165-189
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Individual Approaches in Brief Psychotherapy
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Front Matter
Pages 191-192
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- Marlene M. Moretti, Lisa A. Feldman, Brian F. Shaw
Pages 217-237
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- Adam K. Lehman, Peter Salovey
Pages 239-259
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Family and Marital Brief Therapies
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Front Matter
Pages 295-296
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- Frank S. Pittman III, Kalman Flomenhaft, Carol D. DeYoung
Pages 297-324
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- Mark A. Whisman, Neil S. Jacobson
Pages 325-349
About this book
The last two decades have seen unprecedented increases in health care costs and, at the same time, encouraging progress in psychotherapy research. On the one hand, accountability, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency have now become commonplace terms for providers of mental health services whereas, on the other hand, an increasingly voluminous literature has emerged supporting the effectiveness of a number of types of psychotherapies. There now exists the possibility for the design and delivery of mental health services that-drawing upon this literature-more closely approximate empirically established data concerning the appropriateness and effectiveness of psychotherapy. The Handbook of the Brief Psychotherapies is intended to capture one major thrust of this movement: the development of a group of empirically grounded, time-limited therapies all sharing a common interest in the clinical utilization of a structured focus and an emphasis on time and action. For many years, professional self-interest, competing theoretical para digms, and the vagaries of practice, wisdom, and clinical myth have influenced the practice of psychotherapy. A critical questioning of the resulting, predomi nantly nondirective, open-ended, and global therapies has led to a growing emphasis on action-oriented, problem-focused, time-limited therapies. Yet, ironically, this interest in the brief psychotherapies has not so much involved a radical departure from traditional therapeutic modalities as it has emphasized a new pragmatism about how time, action, and structure operate in life as well as in therapy.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Richard A. Wells
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School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA
Vincent J. Giannetti
