Psychotherapy Essentials to Go - Achieving Psychotherapy Effectiveness: 0 (Go-To Guides for Mental Health) - Softcover

Clare Pain; Molyn Leszcz; Jon Hunter; Paula Ravitz; Robert Maunder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393708268 ISBN 13: 9780393708264

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

An essential tool for on-the-ground clinicians, this guidebook provides an easy-to-use, evidence-based summary of psychotherapy skills that enhance the therapeutic alliance and improve outcomes in difficult treatment situations. Addressing commonly-encountered clinical challenges, this concise guide one of six in the Psychotherapy Essentials To Go series lays out the basics of building effectiveness in psychotherapy. Self-questionnaires, case studies, role play transcripts, diagrams, exercises, and worksheets make it easy for front-line case workers and therapists of all kinds to learn the fundamentals of effective treatment and put them to use immediately."

About this title

About the Authors

Clare Pain, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Universities of Toronto and Western Ontario.

Paula Ravitz, MD, is Associate Professor, Morgan Firestone Psychotherapy Chair, and Associate Director of the Psychotherapy, Health Humanities, and Education Scholarship Division for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, where she leads IPT training. She is also the director of the Mt. Sinai Psychotherapy Institute. Her clinical practice, teaching, and research focus on IPT and attachment informed psychotherapy.

Robert Maunder, MD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and head of research for Mount Sinai Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry. His primary research interest is the role of interpersonal attachment on health.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393708268
• ISBN 13: 9780393708264
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144