1st Edition

Systematic Treatment Selection Toward Targeted Therapeutic Interventions

By Larry E. Beutler, John F. Clarkin Copyright 1990
    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    This essential guide to the prescriptive selection of psychosocial interventions is founded on a research?based model that sequentially considers patient dimensions, environments, settings, therapists, and therapies. It covers the development of a prescriptive decision model, patient predisposing variables, and more.

    1: Background and Introduction; 1: Introduction; 2: A Model of Differential Treatment Selection; 2: Patient Predisposing Variables; 3: Diagnostic Considerations; 4: Patient Personal Characteristics; 5: Environments and Circumstances; 3: The Treatment Context; 6: The Treatment Setting; 7: Treatment Mode and Format; 8: Treatment Frequency and Duration; 4: Relationship Variables; 9: Therapist-Patient Personal Compatibility; 10: Enhancing and Maintaining the Therapeutic Alliance; 5: Tailoring Strategies and Techniques; 11: Selecting Focal Targets of Change; 12: Selecting the Level of Intervention and the Mediating Goals of Psychotherapy; 13: Conducting Therapeutic Work; 6: Training Directions; 14: Training in Differential Treatment Selection

    Biography

    Larry E. Beutler, John F. Clarkin