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Unifying Effective Psychotherapies

Tracing the Process of Change

J Scott Fraser author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:American Psychological Association

Published:13th Feb '18

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Mental health professionals have long debated what makes effective psychotherapy work. Is it a specific treatment modality, or a set of common factors such as a strong therapeutic relationship? In this book, J. Scott Fraser argues that both perspectives are correct. His transtheoretical, transdiagnostic framework identifies the process of change that underlies all effective treatments.
 
From this viewpoint, all client problems boil down to negative, recurring cycles of thought and behavior. The goal of psychotherapy is to disrupt or reverse those cycles. While successful treatment requires common factors linked with specific interventions, these components must be embedded in a therapeutic rationale that implies a direction for treatment. There are many possible “correct” rationales, so finding the one that best fits the client and therapist is the task of treatment planning. The book uses varied and compelling case examples, featuring different client problems and treatments, to illustrate a common process of change.
 
Both philosophically rich and highly practical, this book helps readers understand the complexity and promise of psychotherapy.
 

Fraser offers a truly integrative and satisfying approach to the contentious and messy debate over specific treatments versus common factors by focusing on processes that can be linked to unique problems, relationships, and therapeutic situations. Practitioners, trainees, and treatment researchers alike will benefit from reading this engaging and remarkable text.

-- Timothy Anderson, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, Athens

Replete with clinical wisdom, analytic clarity, and scholarly grounding, this volume is a creative tour de force. We will be exploring the implications of Fraser's process orientation to therapy for years to come.

-- Kenneth J. Gergen, PhD, Senior Research Professor, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; author of Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community

In this marvelous book, Fraser synthesizes a lifetime of research on the underlying principles for psychotherapy, culminating in this insightful process-centered view that emphasizes context. Covering a variety of problems ranging from anxiety and depression to couple and family difficulties, the author provides a glimpse into the future of psychotherapy.

-- Jay L. Lebow, PhD, ABPP, Senior Scholar and Senior Therapist, Family Institute at Northwestern and Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

This one-of-a-kind therapy training text unifies specific empirically validated psychotherapies, including treatments for mood disorders and interpersonal problems, and fully integrates them with the process of change. It then translates this process into clinical practice. This will be an excellent resource for students who are planning to become counselors.

-- Toni Zimmerman, PhD, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Col

ISBN: 9781433828676

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309 pages