The Heart and Soul of Change : Delivering What Works in Therapy

The Heart & Soul of Change Delivering What Works in Therapy by American Psychological Association,2009, Hardcover 2nd Edition Updating the classic first edition of "The Heart and Soul of Change", editors Duncan, Miller, Wampold, and Hubble, have created a new and enriched volume that presents the most recent research on what works in therapeutic practice, a thorough analysis of this research, and practical guidance on how a therapist can truly 'deliver what works in therapy'. This volume examines the common factors underlying effective psychotherapy and brings the psychotherapist and the client-therapist relationship back into focus as key determinants of psychotherapy outcome. The second edition of "The Heart and Soul of Change" also demonstrates the power of systematic client feedback to improve effectiveness and efficiency and legitimize psychotherapy services to third party payers. In this way, psychotherapy is implemented one person at a time, based on that unique individual's perceptions of the progress and fit of the therapy and therapist. Readers familiar with the first edition will encounter the same pragmatic focus but with a larger breadth of coverage - this edition adds chapters on both youth psychotherapy and substance abuse treatment. Through reading "The Heart and Soul of Change, Second Edition: Delivering What Works in Therapy" clinicians of varied levels of experience will improve their understanding of what is truly therapeutic in the diverse forms of psychotherapy practiced today "Updating the classic first edition of The heart and soul of change (see record 1999-02137-000), editors Duncan, Miller, Wampold, and Hubble have created a new and enriched volume that analyzes the most recent research on what works in therapeutic practice and provides practical guidance on how a therapist can truly deliver what works in therapy. Readers familiar with the first edition will encounter the same pragmatic focus but with a larger breadth of coverage and new chapters on both youth psychotherapy and substance abuse treatment. The guiding principle is recognition that psychotherapy is implemented one person at a time, on the basis of that unique individual's perceptions of the progress and fit of the therapy and therapist. Chapters examine the common factors underlying effective psychotherapy and bring the psychotherapist and the client-therapist relationship into focus as key determinants of psychotherapy outcome. This new edition also demonstrates that systematic client feedback improves effectiveness and efficiency and legitimizes psychotherapy services to third-party payers. Clinicians reading this volume will improve their understanding of what is truly therapeutic in the diverse forms of psychotherapy practiced today"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) Contents Contributors Foreword Preface Prologue: Saul Rosenzweig: the Founder of the Common Factors Chapter 1 Introduction Part I What Works and What Does Not: The Empirical Foundations for the Common Factors Chapter 2 The Research Evidence for the Common Factors Models: A Historically Situated Perspective Chapter 3 Clients: The Neglected Common Factor in Psychotherapy Chapter 4 The Therapeutic Relationship Chapter 5 Putting Models and Techniques in Context Chapter 6 Evidence-Based Practice: Evidence or Orthodoxy? Chapter 7 Psychiatric Drugs and Common Factors: An Evaluation of Risks and Benefits for Clinical Practice Part II Delivering What Works: Practice-Based Evidence Chapter 8 "Yes, It Is Time for Clinicians to Routinely Monitor Treatment Outcome" Chapter 9 Outcomes Management, Reimbursement, and the Future of Psychotherapy Chapter 10 Transforming Public Behavioral Health Care: A Case Example of Consumer-Directed Services, Recovery, and the Common Factors Part III Special Populations Chapter 11 Evidence-Based Treatments and Common Factors in Youth Psychotherapy Chapter 12 Common Factors in Couple and Family Therapy: Must All Have Prizes? Chapter 13 What Works in Substance Abuse and Dependence Treatment Part IV Conclusions Chapter 14 Delivering What Works Index About the Editors The research evidence for common factors models : a historically situated perspective / Bruce E. Wampold Clients : the neglected common factor in psychotherapy / Arthur C. Bohart and Karen Tallman The therapeutic relationship / John C. Norcross Putting models and techniques in context / Timothy Anderson, Kirk M. Lunnen, and Benjamin M. Ogles Evidence-based practice : evidence or orthodoxy? / Julia H. Littell Psychiatric drugs and common factors : an evaluation of risks and benefits for clinical practice / Jacqueline A. Sparks ... [et al.] Yes, it is time for clinicians to routinely monitor treatment outcome / Michael J. Lambert Outcomes management, reimbursement, and the future of psychotherapy / Jeb Brown and Takuya Minami Transforming public behavioral health care : a case example of consumer directed services, recovery, and the common factors / Robert T. Bohanske and Michael Franczak Evidence based treatments and common factors in youth psychotherapy / Susan Douglas Kelley, Leonard Bickman, and Earta Norwood Common factors in couple and family therapy : must all have prizes? / Jacqueline A. Sparks and Barry L. Duncan What works in substance abuse and dependence treatment / David Mee-Lee, A. Thomas Mclellan, and Scott D. Miller Delivering what works / Scott D. Miller ... [et al.]. The editors of this second edition have created a new and enriched volume that presents the most recent research on what works in therapeutic practice, a thorough analysis of this research, and practical guidance on how a therapist can truly “deliver what works in therapy.” The Heart and Soul of Change examines the common factors underlying effective psychotherapy and brings the psychotherapist and the client-therapist relationship back into focus as key determinants of psychotherapy outcome. This edition also demonstrates the power of systematic client feedback to improve effectiveness and efficiency and legitimize psychotherapy services to third party payers.