The Handbook of Psychotherapy

by Clarkson, Petruska; Pokorny, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415077224
• ISBN10: 0415077222
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of this expanding area of mental health theory and practice. It offers in one volume a rich resource of information and reference for all health professionals and anyone interested in psychotherapy as practitioner, patient or general reader.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
The nature and range of psychotherapy	p. 3
The psychotherapeutic relationship	p. 28
A practitioner-scientist approach to psychotherapy process and outcome research	p. 49
Psychotherapy and race	p. 75
Psychotherapy and gender	p. 86
Therapy with survivors of the Nazi Holocaust	p. 100
Psychotherapy and sexual orientation	p. 119
Individual adult psychotherapy	p. 135
A spectrum of psychological therapies for children	p. 158
Analytical psychotherapy with children	p. 172
Adolescent psychotherapy	p. 195
Short-term psychotherapy	p. 208
Marital psychotherapy	p. 225
Family therapy	p. 231
Group psychotherapy	p. 249
Psychotherapy in and with organisations	p. 267
Psychotherapies within the NHS	p. 286
Psychotherapy and social services	p. 300
Psychotherapeutic communities: the contemporary practice	p. 314
Psychotherapy in the voluntary and independent sector	p. 338
Psychotherapy in private practice	p. 351
Psychotherapy and learning disability	p. 365
The personal and the political: power, authority and influence in psychotherapy	p. 384
Psychotherapeutic work with adult survivors of sexual abuse in childhood	p. 403
Sexual contact between psychotherapists and their patients	p. 431
An approach to the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD)	p. 451
Forensic psychotherapy	p. 470
Psychotherapy with the dying and the bereaved	p. 494
Appendix A Structure of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and list of its member organisations	p. 515
Appendix B The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy: ethical guidelines	p. 521
Name index	p. 527
Subject index	p. 534
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