|
|
 |
This book is out of print and no longer available for purchase. For decades, psychotherapists have struggled to evaluate the effects of therapy on their patients. Which psychotherapeutic interventions work best with which psychological disorders? And how do patients change as a result? Although there has been widespread study of therapeutic efficacy, the diversity in outcome measures has yielded little practical information. Measuring Patient Changes in Mood, Anxiety, and Personality Disorders brings together top experts in psychotherapy and leading figures in clinical research who explore what might appear in a core battery. The discussion is organized around four key questions:
A unified stance on these questions is an important first step in making the case for treatment effectiveness in an era of increasing accountability. This volume is a valuable resource for psychotherapists, psychotherapy researchers, administrators, insurance providers, and policy makers. Book Review The book records a conference of the APA notable in bringing together major (American) contributors to outcome research literature across different models of intervention as well as some powerful thinkers and innovators in the problems of assessing "outcome." The book is impressive in its thoroughness…my interest was consistently engaged and especially so by the advances being made in the assessment of so-called personality disorders and in the chapters that reach beyond the ubiquitous self-report, or clinician report on self-report, to experimental measures of functions being targeted by intervention. This book is part of the APA Science Volume Series. |
|
|
)
