The Essence of Psychotherapy
Subtitle: Reinventing the Art in the New Era of Data (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional) (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: March 3, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780121987602
First sentence: In an editorial addressed to a behavioral healthcare industry that is rushing almost blindly into the promulgation of treatment models that work, and then arbitrarily labeling them as "best practices," Oss (1998 injected this timely question: "What are so-called best practices, anyway?" (p.3).
Description: "The Essence of Psychotherapy traces the common thread in all approaches to psychotherapy - behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, strategic, and humanistic - and defines their "essence" as a set of fundamental principles and ultimate objectives that must be preserved in the face of increased standardization in the field."--BOOK JACKET.