1st Edition

Psychotherapy Revised New Frontiers in Research and Practice

By E. Lakin Phillips Copyright 1985

    First published in 1985. Over the past several decades psychotherapy has evidenced enormous activity without demonstrating much change. The matter of outcome is still an important issue in psychotherapy. How are we to judge the value of something unless we can study its consequences? The opinion that the outcome problem has been left hanging is a judgment supported throughout this book.

    Chapter 1 Attrition: The Number One Problem of Psychotherapy Practice and Research; Chapter 2 Data Bases on Attrition Across Newly Researched Psychotherapy Delivery Systems; Chapter 3 Analogue Studies and Attrition: Special Challenge; Chapter 4 The Intake Interview and Its Implications; Chapter 5 Client and Delivery System Characteristics: The Flow of Cases Over Time; Chapter 6 The Fagan Study of Intake; Chapter 7 The Kaiser Study of Attrition in Alcoholic Outpatients; Chapter 8 Outcome Studies: Satisfaction and Behavioral Problem Solving (Clients and Therapists Evaluate Each Other); Chapter 9 Conflict Theory: Psychotherapy and Micro Processes; Chapter 10 Toward a Conceptual Integration — Macro Level; Chapter 11 Overview;

    Biography

    The George Washington University.