Many students enter graduate programs with little or no experience of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Efforts to impart clinical skills have often been less than systematic, and beginning psychotherapists have not always been encouraged to think about what they are doing and why they are doing it from a scientific standpoint. Thoughtfully building on current debates over efficacy and effectiveness, this book outlines a promising approach to training in which the work of therapy is divided into tasks patterned after Luborsky's influential delineation of curative factors—significant developments in the course of the therapy that are crucial for effective change.
Key Features
- Analysis and teaching of each task step for the therapist—cognitive, behavioral, affective, or a combination.
- The approach is based on a solid empirical base, with extensive studies on curative factors.
- Designed to meet the increased accountability demands for evidence-based practices.
Additional Information
Each task step is analyzed, taught separately, and then put in sequence with the other task steps. Core Processes in Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy will be an invaluable resource not only for students and trainees but also for established therapists who find themselves asked to justify their work.
