Innovations in Clinical Practice: Focus on Group, Couples, & Family Therapy

by VandeCreek, Leon; Allen, Jeffery B.

• ISBN13: 9781568871103
• ISBN10: 1568871104
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Professional Resource Exchange Inc

Summary

Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH. Topics include treatment of antisocial youth and families, group treatments of eating disorders with children and adolescents, solution-focused premarital counseling, and conduction group psychotherapy in private practice. For psychotherapists. Softcover. DNLM: Psychotherapy, Group--methods.

Author Biography

Leon VandeCreek, PhD, Senior Editor, is a licensed psychologist who is the past dean and current Professor in the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He has been awarded the Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and he is a Fellow of several divisions of the American Psychological Association. His interests include professional training and ethical/legal issues related to professional education and practice. Dr.VandeCreek has served as President of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, Chair of the APA Insurance Trust, Chair of the Board of Educational Affairs of the APA, and Treasurer of the Ohio Psychological Association. In 2005 he served as President of the Division of Psychotherapy of the APA. He has authored and coauthored about 150 professional presentations and publications, including 17 books. Since 1992, he has served as Senior Editor of the Innovations in Clinical Practice: A Source Book series, published by Professional Resource Press. Dr. VandeCreek may be contacted at the Ellis Human Development Institute, 9 N. Edwin C. Moses Boulevard, Dayton, OH 45407. E-mail: [e-mail] Jeffery B. Allen, PhD, ABPP-CN, is currently a Professor in the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Allen's professional experience includes a specialty internship in neuropsychology at Brown University and a focused postdoctoral fellowship at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan in Detroit. He is widely published in the areas of neuropsychology, head injuries, and memory in such sources as Neuropsychologia, Brain Injuries, and Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology and Assessment. His areas of teaching also include physiological psychology and clinical neuropsychology. His research interests include neurobehavioral disorders, quality of life in medical populations, cognitive and neuropsychological assessment, and outcome measurement in rehabilitation. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Neuropsychology and has recently published the text, General Practitioner's Guide to Neuropsychological Assessment, through the American Psychological Association. Dr. Allen can be reached at SOPP, Wright State University, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH 45435-0001. E-mail: [e-mail]