Counseling and Psychotherapy Today - Brossura

Austad, Carol

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0071101632 ISBN 13: 9780071101639

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2008

Riassunto

Today's counseling and psychotherapy-related careers require practitioners to grasp and respond to a continually changing context. This comprehensive and contemporary introduction to the field prepares students to engage productively with a variety of theoretical models, practice settings, and patient problems. The author draws on her experience as a practicing therapist and professor in presenting theory, practice, and research in a clear and compelling style.

Starting with the big picture of psychotherapy within its sociocultural context and fundamental issues, Austad then reviews the major theoretical models. Students are encouraged to develop a mental model that helps them to compare and contrast key features of each theory and to understand the settings in which each best applies.

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L'autore:

Carol Shaw Austad is a clinical psychologist who lives in New Britain, CT. She grew up in Waterbury, CT and attended the University of Connecticut. She graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. During the time she lived in Canada, she was deeply impressed with the health care system rendered by the Canadian government. This experience had a great impact upon her thinking about health care and psychotherapy. Austad received her Ph.D. from the University of North Texas where she obtained instruction in long-term psychodynamic therapy from a number of supervisors. She completed an internship at Connecticut Valley Hospital, a state institute for the chronically mentally ill, worked at a private psychiatric hospital for a year, and for a staff model health maintenance organization, Community Health Care Plan, in New Haven CT. After five years as a managed care psychologist she assumed a full term position at Central Connecticut State University while maintaining a part time position in the HMO. Currently, she is a Full Professor at CCSU and teaches psychology. Austad is the co-editor of Psychotherapy in Managed Health Care: The Optimal Use of Time and Resources and a book about ethics, psychotherapy, and managed care entitled Is Long-term Psychotherapy Ethical in an Era of Managed Care" published by Jossey Bass.

Contenuti:

Chapter 1: The State of Psychotherapy and Counseling
Chapter 2: Professionalism, Ethics, and Legal Issues
Chapter 3: Freud’s Classical Psychoanalysis
Chapter 4: Psychodynamic Therapy After Freud
Chapter 5: Adler’s Individual Psychology
Chapter 6: Rogers’s Client-Centered Therapy
Chapter 7: Existential Therapy
Chapter 8: Gestalt Therapy
Chapter 9: Behavior Therapy
Chapter 10: Cognitive Therapy
Chapter 11: Reality Therapy
Chapter 12: Feminist Therapy
Chapter 13: Biopsychosocial Therapy and Health Psychology
Chapter 14: Psychopharmacology
Chapter 15: Eclectic and Other Psychotherapies
Appendix A: Case Studies
Appendix B: Comparison of Psychotherapies

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071101632
• ISBN 13: 9780071101639
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 559