Group Therapy
Chapter 11 GROUP THERAPY Gary M. Burlingame Debra Theobald McClendon A comprehensive definition of group psychotherapy includes groups that are used for the purpose of prevention, guidance, counseling, and training…
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
CHAPTER 7 PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY Jeffrey J. Magnavita The psychoanalytic approach began with Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and the use of free association at the end of the nineteenth century…
Behavior Therapy
CHAPTER 2 BEHAVIOR THERAPY Richard E. Zinbarg James W. Griffith The central defining feature of behavior therapy is that it involves the application of the laws of learning theory to…
Cognitive Therapy
CHAPTER 3 COGNITIVE THERAPY Scott H. Kellogg Jeffrey E. Young Cognitive therapy, now often incorporated as a part of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), has emerged as one of the leading schools…
Existential Psychotherapy
CHAPTER 8 EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY Mick Cooper Despite being one of the oldest and most widespread forms of therapeutic practice, existential psychotherapy is, perhaps, one of the least well understood. A…
Couple and Family Therapy
Chapter 10 COUPLE AND FAMILY THERAPY Jay L. Lebow Couple and family therapy would seem to be among the easiest forms of therapy to define and describe. Most simply, couple…
Postmodern/Poststructuralist Therapies
CHAPTER 6 POSTMODERN/POSTSTRUCTURALIST THERAPIES Margarita Tarragona A new generation of therapies has been developing since the past quarter of the twentieth century. The proponents of these approaches questioned many of…
Common Factors in Psychotherapy
Chapter 14 COMMON FACTORS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY Jacqueline A. Sparks Barry L. Duncan Scott D. Miller The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. —Thomas…
Mindfulness- and Acceptance-Based Therapy
CHAPTER 5 MINDFULNESS- AND ACCEPTANCE-BASED THERAPY Ruth A. Baer Debra B. Huss Mindfulness and acceptance have become topics of great interest to therapists of many theoretical persuasions and clinical backgrounds….
Experiential Therapy
CHAPTER 4 EXPERIENTIAL THERAPY Alberta E. Pos Leslie S. Greenberg Robert Elliott Two ways of knowing are possible. We can know conceptually (knowledge by description) and we can know by…
