Great Psychotherapy Debate Models, Methods, and Findings

Name: Great Psychotherapy Debate Models, Methods, and Findings
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ISBN: 9780805832020

ISBN-10: 0805832025

ISBN-13: 9780805832020

Edition: 2001

Authors: Bruce E. Wampold

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The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, Methods, and Findings comprehensively reviews the research on psychotherapy to dispute the commonly held view that the benefits of psychotherapy are derived from the specific ingredients contained in a given treatment (medical model). The author reviews the literature related to the absolute efficacy of psychotherapy, the relative efficacy of various treatments, the specificity of ingredients contained in established therapies, effects due to common factors, such as the working alliance, adherence and allegiance to the therapeutic protocol, and effects that are produced by different therapists. In each case, the evidence convincingly corroborates the…

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Competing Meta-Models: The Medical Model Versus the Contextual Model



Differential Hypotheses and Evidentiary Rules



Absolute Efficacy: The Benefits of Psychotherapy Established by Meta-Analysis



Relative Efficacy: The Dodo Bird Was Smarter Than We Have Been Led to Believe



Specific Effects: Weak Empirical Evidence That Benefits of Psychotherapy are Derived From Specific Ingredients



General Effects: The Alliance as a Case in Point



Allegiance and Adherence: Further Evidence for the Contextual Model



Therapist Effects: An Ignored but Critical Factor



Implications of Rejecting the Medical Model


References


Author Index


Subject Index