Toward Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: Training and Practice

by Carkhuff,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780202309880
• ISBN10: 0202309886
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The field of counseling and psychotherapy has for years presented the puzzling spectacle of unabating enthusiasm for forms of treatment whose effectiveness cannot be objectively demonstrated. With few exceptions, statistical studies have consistently failed to show that any form of psychotherapy is followed by significantly more improvement than would be caused by the mere passage of an equivalent period of time. Despite this, practitioners of various psychotherapeutic schools have remained firmly convinced that their methods are effective. Many recipients of these forms of treatment also believe that they are being helped.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Theoretic and Research Bases for Training and Practice in Psychotherapy and Counseling	p. 1
Counseling and Psychotherapy: Differential Antecedents with Differential Consequences?	p. 4
Central Therapeutic Ingredients: Theoretic Convergence	p. 23
Central Therapeutic Ingredients: Research Evidence	p. 80
The Implications of Learning Theory and Behavior Therapy for Effective Therapeutic Encounters	p. 144
The Focus of the Therapeutic Encounter: The Person Being Helped	p. 163
Training in Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Introduction	p. 209
Toward an Integrated Didactic and Experimental Approach to Training	p. 220
Toward Effective Training: A Theoretic View	p. 222
The Present Approach to Training: An Operational and Experiential Overview	p. 243
The Quasi-Group Therapy Experience	p. 273
Toward the Accurately Emphatic Therapist: The Perceptive and Communicative Aspects	p. 285
Toward the Communication of Nonpossessive Warmth in the Therapist	p. 314
Toward Authenticity or Genuineness	p. 329
An Application of Learning from the Training Program to Group Counseling	p. 336
Toward the Mature Therapist and Counselor	p. 354
Ancillary Therapeutic Ingredients	p. 355
Toward Guidelines for Therapist Growth in the Therapeutic Encounter	p. 368
References	p. 378
Index	p. 403
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