Systems of Psychotherapy 6e - Hardcover

Prochaska, James O.; Norcross, John C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0495007773 ISBN 13: 9780495007777

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

Systematic and balanced, this comprehensive text uses a wealth of clinical case illustrations to help readers understand a wide variety of psychotherapies including psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, existential, person-centered, experiential, interpersonal, exposure, behavioral, cognitive, systemic, multicultural, and integrative. The Sixth Edition thoroughly analyzes 15 leading systems of psychotherapy and briefly surveys another 30, thus providing a broader scope than is available in most textbooks. Prochaska and Norcross explore each system's theory of personality, theory of psychopathology, and resulting therapeutic process and relationship. By doing so, they demonstrate how much psychotherapy systems agree on the processes producing change, while showing how they disagree on the content that needs to be changed. To bring these similarities and differences to life, the authors also present the limitations, practicalities, and outcome research of each system of psychotherapy.

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"SYSTEMS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY covers, in a scholarly and balanced manner, a wide range of theories and methods -- which is what we sorely need. When using this book in one of my graduate courses, the students gave me an A+ for assigning this wide ranging and stimulating book."

Synopsis

In this graduate-level text Prochaska (psychology, U. of Rhode Island) and Norcross (psychology, U. of Scranton) present the leading systems of psychotherapy with the idea that different clinical approaches have vitality and meaning for different clients and therapists. They cover therapies such as the psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, existential, pe

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0495007773
• ISBN 13: 9780495007777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 638