Handbook of Homework Assignments in Psychotherapy [electronic resource] : Research, Practice, and Prevention /
Kazantzis, Nikolaos.editor.
L'Abate, Luciano.editor.
The process of psychotherapy is essentially a means of helping patients to help themselves. As such, psychotherapy is not limited to the relatively brief in-session consultation time with the practitioner. Rather, patients' engagement in therapeutic activities between sessions has become an important part of the therapy process. Such activities, often termed 'homework', are central to ensuring that therapeutic goals are reached. The Handbook of Homework in Psychotherapy is the first resource for the practicing clinician that addresses the role of homework across major therapeutic paradigms and complex clinical problems. It opens with a series of practice-orientated chapters on the role of homework in different psychotherapies (acceptance and commitment, client-centered, constructivist, cognitive-behavioral, experiential, family, interpersonal, psychodynamic) written by an international team of expert psychotherapy practitioner-researchers. Then, experienced practitioners present strategies, examples, and formulated assignments for use with different populations (couples, families, older adults) and complex problems (chronic depression, chronic pain, eating disorders, obsessions and compulsions, personality disorders, psychosis, sexual dysfunction, substance abuse, traumatic brain injury). The Handbook closes with three chapters by leading psychotherapy theoreticians, researchers, and practitioners that critique the available research evidence for homework, integrate the recommendations for using homework in practice, and also provide directions for homework's role in prevention. Each chapter presents: A brief overview of the approach Review of existing empirical support Recommendations for practice Illustration of homework's role in practice and prevention through detailed case studies Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
Brief behavioral marital therapy -- and Historical Overview -- Psychotherapy Approaches -- Behavior Therapy -- Client-Centered Therapy -- Cognitive Therapy -- Emotion-Focused Experiential Therapy -- Interpersonal Psychotherapy -- Psychodynamic Therapy -- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy -- Brief Strategic Family Therapy -- Personal Construct Therapy -- Client Populations -- Older Adults -- Couples -- Families -- Specific Problems -- Borderline Personality Disorder -- Chronic Depression -- Chronic Pain -- Eating Disorders -- Low Self-Esteem -- Obsessions and Compulsions -- Psychosis -- Sexual Dysfunction -- Substance Abuse -- Traumatic Brain Injury -- Directions for Research, Practice, and Prevention -- Directions for Research on Homework -- Directions for the Integration of Homework In practice -- Directions for Homework in Psychotherapy Prevention.
The process of psychotherapy is essentially a means of helping patients to help themselves. As such, psychotherapy is not limited to the relatively brief in-session consultation time with the practitioner. Rather, patients' engagement in therapeutic activities between sessions has become an important part of the therapy process. Such activities, often termed 'homework', are central to ensuring that therapeutic goals are reached. The Handbook of Homework in Psychotherapy is the first resource for the practicing clinician that addresses the role of homework across major therapeutic paradigms and complex clinical problems. It opens with a series of practice-orientated chapters on the role of homework in different psychotherapies (acceptance and commitment, client-centered, constructivist, cognitive-behavioral, experiential, family, interpersonal, psychodynamic) written by an international team of expert psychotherapy practitioner-researchers. Then, experienced practitioners present strategies, examples, and formulated assignments for use with different populations (couples, families, older adults) and complex problems (chronic depression, chronic pain, eating disorders, obsessions and compulsions, personality disorders, psychosis, sexual dysfunction, substance abuse, traumatic brain injury). The Handbook closes with three chapters by leading psychotherapy theoreticians, researchers, and practitioners that critique the available research evidence for homework, integrate the recommendations for using homework in practice, and also provide directions for homework's role in prevention. Each chapter presents: A brief overview of the approach Review of existing empirical support Recommendations for practice Illustration of homework's role in practice and prevention through detailed case studies Clinical psychology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Clinical Psychology.
Personality and Social Psychology.