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Handbook of the Brief Psychotherapies by Richard A. Wells, Phillip A. Phelps (auth.), Richard A. Wells, Vincent J. Giannetti (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

Who reads Handbook of the Brief Psychotherapies?

Author

Richard A. Wells, Phillip A. Phelps (auth.), Richard A. Wells, Vincent J. Giannetti (eds.)

Publisher

Springer US : Imprint : Springer

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306432705

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Medicine