Principles of Change

Overall, this work offers a functional and practical guide for student therapists and practicing professionals alike...Recommended. * D.A. Marston, Marston Psychological Services, LLC, CHOICE *
"This volume looks at detailed case formulation and also addresses a variety of theoretical and process issues, thereby illustrating the many different decisions that need to be made in the course of helping therapy clients. Overall, this work offers a functional and practical guide for student therapists and practicing professionals alike." * Choice *
This book is a milestone in the critical journey toward 'practice-based evidence'. Because respect for clinical experience permeates each chapter, it belongs in the library of every therapist. And because the empirically derived principles explored here are far more relevant to effective therapy than focused techniques validated on cherry-picked samples, it also belongs on the bookshelves of all clinical researchers. This thoughtful collaboration exemplifies what it teaches: We can help people better when we get out of our silos of role and orientation and listen to each other. * Nancy McWilliams, PhD, Visiting Full Professor, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology *
By linking empirical findings with clinical wisdom, this volume provides us with a significant step in offering a much needed consensus about who benefits from therapy, how therapeutic change occurs, and what clinicians can do to bring it about. It also demonstrates how a collaborative effort between researchers and clinicians can provide the field with a conceptually clear direction of what needs to be done to further the effectiveness of our interventions. It is unquestionably a landmark contribution to the field. * Marvin R. Goldfried, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Stony Brook University *
Seasoned psychotherapists are increasingly learning that principles of change are the curative catalysts, and this book is the bible of that movement. Three eminent scholar-practitioners show us how to implement change principles and, most urgently, how our patients profit from them. * John C. Norcross, PhD, ABPP, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at University of Scranton and editor of Psychotherapy Relationships That Work *