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The Great Psychotherapy Debate CL

by Bruce E. Wampold

ISBN13: 9780805832013
ISBN10: 0805832017
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i The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, Methods, and Findings /i comprehensively reviews the research on psychotherapy to dispute the commonly held view that the benefits of psychotherapy are derived from the specific ingredients contained in a given treatment (medical model). The author reviews the literature related to the absolute efficacy of psychotherapy, the relative efficacy of various treatments, the specificity of ingredients contained in established therapies, effects due to common factors, such as the working alliance, adherence and allegiance to the therapeutic protocol, and effects that are produced by different therapists. In each case, the evidence convincingly corroborates the contextual model and disconfirms the prevailing medical model. br

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This volume is intended to disprove the current belief that certain psychotherapies have been scientifically proven to be more effective in treating certain psychological problems than other therapies. Written for students in counseling, psychology and,

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Competing Meta-Models: The Medical Model Versus the Contextual Model. Differential Hypotheses and Evidentiary Rules. Absolute Efficacy: The Benefits of Psychotherapy Established by Meta-Analysis. Relative Efficacy: The Dodo Bird Was Smarter Than We Have Been Led to Believe. Specific Effects: Weak Empirical Evidence That Benefits of Psychotherapy Are Derived From Specific Ingredients. General Effects: The Alliance as a Case in Point. Allegiance and Adherence: Further Evidence for the Contextual Model. Therapist Effects: An Ignored but Critical Factor. Implications of Rejecting the Medical Model.

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: Victoria Gantz, October 30, 2008 (view all comments by Victoria Gantz)
My husband and I read this book when it first came out. We can not stop referring to it, especially the parts about how the relationship between therapist and client is the gist of successful therapy, and more important than any treatment modality.
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ISBN:: 9780805832013
Author:: Wampold, Bruce E.
Publisher:: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Psychotherapy
Subject:: Mental health
Subject:: Psychotherapy - General
Subject:: Psychotherapy -- Philosophy.
Subject:: Psychotherapy -- Evaluation.
Publication Date:: March 2001
Binding:: Hardcover
Language:: English
Pages:: 280
Dimensions:: 929x631x88 126

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