The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies: A Practitioner's Guide (Corecompetencies in Psychotherapy) - Softcover

Mantosh J. Dewan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161537079X ISBN 13: 9781615370795

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

This unique textbook offers an invaluable starting point in learning both the art and science of brief psychotherapy. Unlike other references, which review current literature and cover all of the many schools of brief therapy in current use, this compact text is packed with practical information that shows both what to do and why to do it, so that beginning therapists can start to think like brief therapists in their own work.

Based on more than a decade of extensive teaching experience, the editors of this practical guide offer another immediately useful tool in the Core Competencies in Psychotherapy series take you step by step through every approach, describing therapies and specific interventions and including detailed case examples to illustrate how they are implemented.

-The introduction answers basic questions about how to define, when to use, and why and how to learn brief therapy.

-Part I, Six Key Brief Psychotherapies, begins with the highly structured cognitive, behavioural, and solution-focused therapies and continues with interpersonal, time-limited dynamic, and couples therapies.

-Part II, Special Topics, covers identifying the essential ingredients of brief therapy, conducting brief therapy in a multicultural context, combining brief therapy with medications, and evaluating competency in brief therapy.

-Part III, Overview and Synthesis, proposes three skill sets-relationship, instrumental, and change agency, that form the backbone of what it means to be a competent practitioner of brief psychotherapy.

Fully indexed and easy to use, this volume is destined to become the definitive guide to acquiring core competency in this field, bringing to life the fascinating and challenging world of brief psychotherapy for students, teachers, and practitioners everywhere.

About this title

About the Author

Mantosh J. Dewan, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

Roger P. Greenberg, Ph.D., Professor and Head, Psychology Division, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

From the Back Cover

Updated and expanded, this third edition of The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies: A Practitioner's Guide is a comprehensive and practical guide to the major short-term therapies. Accompanied by 40 streaming videos--available on desktop and mobile devices--it is the only text that shows leading experts such as Drs. Beck, Foa, and Levenson conducting their therapies, allowing for a deeper and richer learning experience for readers.

Each chapter is thoroughly updated, and new chapters cover such topics as dialectical behavior therapy, multicultural practice, and mentalizing, as well as fresh approaches to intervention, such as telepsychiatry and Internet-based interventions. There are also new videos on dialectical behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing.

Integrating theory, research, and step-by-step procedures, The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies is an ideal introduction to the range of short-term therapies for psychiatry residents, psychology graduate students and interns, social work students, and experienced practitioners looking to broaden their practice. Readers will find a wealth of models and techniques relevant to the treatment of anxiety, depression, addictions, borderline personality disorder, and much more.

From the Inside Flap

Updated and expanded, this third edition of The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies: A Practitioner's Guide is a comprehensive and practical guide to the major short-term therapies. Accompanied by 40 streaming videos -- available on desktop and mobile devices -- it is the only text that shows leading experts such as Drs. Beck, Foa, and Levenson conducting their therapies, allowing for a deeper and richer learning experience for readers.

Each chapter is thoroughly updated, and new chapters cover such topics as dialectical behavior therapy, multicultural practice, and mentalizing, as well as fresh approaches to intervention, such as telepsychiatry and Internet-based interventions. There are also new videos on dialectical behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing.

Integrating theory, research, and step-by-step procedures, The Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies is an ideal introduction to the range of short-term therapies for psychiatry residents, psychology graduate students and interns, social work students, and experienced practitioners looking to broaden their practice. Readers will find a wealth of models and techniques relevant to the treatment of anxiety, depression, addictions, borderline personality disorder, and much more.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161537079X
• ISBN 13: 9781615370795
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Mantosh J. Dewan, Brett N. Steenbarger, Roger P. Greenberg