The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, Methods, and Findings. Bruce E. Wampold

Bruce E Wampold

LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC Incorporated, 2001 - Psychology - 263 pages

The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, Methods, and Findings comprehensively reviews the research on psychotherapy to dispute the commonly held view that the benefits of psychotherapy are derived from the specific ingredients contained in a given treatment (medical model). The author reviews the literature related to the absolute efficacy of psychotherapy, the relative efficacy of various treatments, the specificity of ingredients contained in established therapies, effects due to common factors, such as the working alliance, adherence and allegiance to the therapeutic protocol, and effects that are produced by different therapists. In each case, the evidence convincingly corroborates the contextual model and disconfirms the prevailing medical model.

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Okay, this book is not for the psychologically faint-of-heart. It's long, it's complex, it's full of research results and it's really, really dull unless you are very curious about what direction ...

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This is an excellent review of the "does psychotherapy work" literature circa 2000 with an unequivocal answer -- YES. Furthermore, and most germane to the point of the book, all credible psychotherapy ...

About the author

Dr. Bruce E. Wampold received his Ph.D. from the Counseling Psychology Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1981 and joined the University of Wisconsin, Madison faculty in fall 1991. He has been a faculty member and Director of Training in the counseling programs at the University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Utah, and the University of Oregon. Dr. Wampold's primary interest centers around understanding psychotherapy from empirical, historical, and anthropological perspectives. Dr. Wampold has published methodological and substantive articles that help to understand how the research on counseling and psychotherapy converges on a contextual model of psychotherapy. He is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, Methods, and Findings. Bruce E. Wampold; Counseling and Psychotherapy: Investigating Practice from Sc; Counseling and Psychotherapy: Investigating Practice from Scientific, Historical, and Cultural Perspectives Series
• Author: Bruce E Wampold
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOC Incorporated, 2001
• ISBN: 0805832025, 9780805832020
• Length: 263 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Psychotherapy / General