Psychotherapy Relationships That Work
The relationship treated as an evidence question rather than an article of faith.
This is a timely and truly outstanding book which all concerned with quality health care should carefully review.
Psychotherapy Relationships That Work collects the work of an American Psychological Association interdivisional task force on the therapy relationship and responsiveness. Each chapter isolates one element of the relationship, assembles the meta-analytic record behind it, rates how firm that evidence is, and ends with clinical practices drawn from the numbers. Norcross and Lambert edit the sixteen chapters of this volume, with new material on adapting the work to client diversity and on training.
For a psychodynamic clinician, the worth lies in the specifics. Pooled effect sizes are reported for the working alliance, for empathy, for goal consensus and collaboration, and for the repair of ruptures as they arise in session. A chapter on the therapist's own contribution to outcome puts figures to how much the person of the clinician accounts for, giving measured language to what the transference field already registers in practice.
About the authors
John Norcross
John C. Norcross is a clinical psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Scranton, where he chairs the psychology department; he also holds a clinical professorship in psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University. His work addresses psychotherapy integration, behavior change, and the evidence-based therapy relationship, including how clinicians adapt treatment to individual clients. He co-edited Psychotherapy Relationships That Work, which reviews research on the therapeutic relationship.
Michael Lambert
Michael J. Lambert is a clinical psychologist at Brigham Young University, known for his research on psychotherapy outcome measurement. He helped develop routine outcome monitoring, in which patient progress is tracked with standardized self-report measures during treatment, and he created the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ-45) system and its feedback tools for alerting clinicians to cases at risk of poor outcome. He co-edited Psychotherapy Relationships That Work with John Norcross.
John Norcross
John C. Norcross is a clinical psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Scranton, where he chairs the psychology department; he also holds a clinical professorship in psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University. His work addresses psychotherapy integration, behavior change, and the evidence-based therapy relationship, including how clinicians adapt treatment to individual clients. He co-edited Psychotherapy Relationships That Work, which reviews research on the therapeutic relationship.
Michael Lambert
Michael J. Lambert is a clinical psychologist at Brigham Young University, known for his research on psychotherapy outcome measurement. He helped develop routine outcome monitoring, in which patient progress is tracked with standardized self-report measures during treatment, and he created the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ-45) system and its feedback tools for alerting clinicians to cases at risk of poor outcome. He co-edited Psychotherapy Relationships That Work with John Norcross.
Details
- 2002
- English
- Oxford University Press
- Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2019
- 688
- 9780190843953