Research in Psychotherapy

by Robin Fox

Overview

Research in Psychotherapy is a comprehensive synthesis and assessment of the psychotherapeutic research literature for the use of both researchers and those in clinical practice. It is designed as a general reference work, an instruction guide, and a source of information about specific aspects and problems of research.

The book consists of three parts. Part 1 discusses principles and methods of research as they are applied to psychotherapy. It provides general background material and principles to help non-researchers appreciate some of the important problems that are encountered. In Part 2, existing research on the effects of psychotherapy and the determinants and correlates of outcome are clustered and reviewed. Chapters 4 to 7 are concerned strictly with a review and appraisal of controlled studies that were designed to evaluate the effects of psychotherapy. Chapters 8 to 13 deal with a large body of research on various factors associated with therapeutic outcome—method, style, and technique variables; patient, therapist, and time variables. Part 3 is concerned with research on aspects of the therapeutic process and on the effect of many of these same variables on the therapeutic interchange as distinct from the outcome of therapy. Also discussed is research on various therapeutic phenomena and conditions about which so much has been written and so little really known.

Research in Psychotherapy was written in the conviction that clinical practice should be influenced by research and that rigorous research that meets acceptable experimental standards can be done on the field of psychotherapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202309897
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/15/2008
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

Julian Meltzoff is a fellow of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Known as an innovator of therapeutic programs, he designed and organized a model milieu therapy setting, which was evaluated in his book The Day Treatment Center: Principles, Application, and Evaluation. He also wrote Critical Thinking About Research: Psychology and Related Fields.

Melvin Kornreich is supervisor of research in the Psychology Section of the Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic in Brooklyn, New York. A diplomate in Clinical Psychology of the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology, Kornreich has had extensive experience in clinical work and research supervision; he teaches in the psychology program of Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction; I: Principles and Methods of Research in Psychotherapy; 1: Problems and Design in Psychotherapy Research; 2: Change and Its Measurement; II: Research on the Effects of Psychotherapy; 3: The Effects of Psychotherapy; 4: Review of Controlled-Outcome Studies; 5: Review of Controlled-Outcome Studies; 6: Review of Controlled-Outcome Studies; 7: Evaluation of Therapeutic Programs and Overview of Outcome Research; 8: Therapeutic Method as an Outcome Variable; 9: The Patient as an Outcome Variable; 10: The Patient as an Outcome Variable; 11: The Therapist as an Outcome Variable; 12: The Therapist as an Outcome Variable; 13: Temporal Variables and Outcome; III: Research on the Process of Psychotherapy; 14: The Therapist as a Variable in the Therapeutic Process; 15: Verbal Processes and Techniques; 16: Patient-Therapist Interactions and Relationships; 17: An Overview of Process Research