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
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780121987602
Subjects: Psychotherapy; Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Psychotherapy - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy; Psychology-Clinical Psychology; Psychology-Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior
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).