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Wilson, Jenifer Elton and Syme, Gabrielle. Objectives and Outcomes: Questioning the Practice of Therapy. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006.

Objectives and Outcomes: Questioning the Practice of Therapy

Authors: Jenifer Elton Wilson and Gabrielle Syme

Published:  October 2006 Pages: 184

eISBN: 9780335229710 | ISBN: 9780335210244
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  • Front Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Series editor's preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1 Objectives of this book
  • Introduction
  • Aims of the book
  • Introduction to the authors
  • Our preliminary questions
  • Chapter 2 Overview of the main orientations
  • Introduction
  • Psychodynamic approaches
  • Existential-humanistic approaches
  • Cognitive behavioural approaches
  • Integrative psychotherapy approaches
  • Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 3 Different contexts of psychotherapy provision
  • Introduction
  • Psychological therapy in medical settings
  • Workplace counselling
  • Counselling in educational settings
  • Psychological therapy in the voluntary sector
  • Pastoral counselling
  • Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 4 Research on objectives and outcomes
  • Introduction
  • Is psychotherapy effective?
  • Which is the most effective therapeutic approach?
  • What psychotherapy process affects outcome?
  • Practitioner research
  • Personal example of the development of a qualitative research attitude to practice events
  • The Impossible Enterprise? workshop
  • Concluding response
  • Chapter 5 Assessments and intakes in relationship to outcomes
  • Introduction
  • What brings a person to psychological therapy?
  • Whether to use diagnosis
  • Clients and the problems they present
  • The therapist's use of assessment
  • Generic assessment issues - what affects all intake sessions
  • Psychodynamic assessment
  • Existential-humanistic assessment
  • Cognitive-behavioural assessment
  • Integrative assessment
  • Brief therapy assessments
  • Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 6 Outcome: the ending
  • Introduction
  • Negative outcomes
  • Positive outcomes
  • No change outcomes
  • The effect on outcomes of society, culture and politics
  • What is the purpose of psychotherapy and does it work anyway?
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover