Becoming an Effective Therapists

Becoming an Effective Therapist
By Len Sperry, Jon Carlson, Diane Kjos
ISBN-10: 0-205-32207-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-205-32207-7
Published by Merrill © 2003
Pub. Date: Sep 30, 2002

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

I. OVERVIEW: BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE THERAPIST.
1. The Effective Therapist: An Overview.

II. ENGAGEMENT.
2. Initiating the Therapeutic Process.

3. Establishing the Therapeutic Relationship.

III. ASSESSMENT.
4. Diagnostic Assessment.

5. From Diagnostic Assessment to Formulation and Intervention.

6. Focused and Ongoing Assessment.

IV. INTERVENTIONS.
7. Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions.

8. Psychodynamic Interventions.

9. Interventive and Solution-Focused Interventions.

10. Systemic and Psychoeducational Interventions.

V. MAINTENANCE AND TERMINATION.
11. Maintaining Clinical Gains, Preventing Relapse, Terminating Treatment.

VI. THE PRACTICE OF EFFECTIVE COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY.
12. Practical Issues and Ethical Dilemmas.

13. The Effective Therapist in Action.