Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Practical Applications / Edition 1

by Windy Dryden

Overview

Many counselling and psychotherapy researchers are suspicious of the pronouncements of practitioners because they are not backed up by research. Similarly, practitioners tend to ignore research findings because they consider that they have little relevance to their clinical practice.

This book bridges the gap that currently exists between research and practice in counselling and psychotherapy by providing detailed clinical examples of the practical relevance of research. It brings together contributions from leading British and American psychotherapy researchers, who describe their research programmes and explore how their findings can substantially inform therapeutic practice. The book calls for the close integration of re

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803978409
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/21/1996
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT.

He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel.

He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Table of Contents

The Assimilation Model - Michael Barkham, William B Stiles, Gillian E Hardy and Susan D Field
Theory, Research and Practical Guidelines
Research Applications of Prescriptive Therapy - Larry E Beutler, Heidi A Zetzer and Rebecca E Williams
A Research Program on Attitude Change Processes and Their Applications to Counseling - Martin Heesacker and Cristina Mejia-Millan
Research and Practice in the Treatment of Complex Anxiety Disorders - Gillian Butler
Developing More Effective Treatments
Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic Therapies - Susan L Wiser, Marvin R Goldfried, Patrick J Raue and Douglas A Vakoch
A Comparison of Change Processes
A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Couples' Problems - Norman Epstein and Donald H Baucom
A Program of Research and Its Clinical Applications
Modifying Irrational Control and Certainty Beliefs - Frank W Bond and Windy Dryden
Clinical Recommendations Based upon Research
Clients' Perceptual Processing - Shak[ac]e G Toukmanian
An Integration of Research and Practice
Resolving Unfinished Business - Shelley Mc Main, Rhonda Goldman and Leslie Greenberg
A Program of Study
Discovery-Oriented Research on How to Do Psychotherapy - Alvin R Mahrer