Clinical Psychology

attending, or may not agree that therapy is needed to address their behavior. Many children attend therapy as a result of their ...

BOX11-4 Focus on Clinical Applications: Information Patients Have a Right to Know Handelsman and Galvin (1988) have prepared a c ...

progress, to address new problems or issues that have arisen in the interim, and to solidify the gains that have been made. It i ...

1965, 1966) as a challenge. Consequently, the sig- nificance of Eysenck’s work lies less in the validity of his conclusions (whi ...

until after the study is completed; in anattention only control group, patients meet regularly with a clinician, but no“active”t ...

Comparative Studies Therapy research has become increasingly sophisti- cated since Eysenck’s critique. More and more studies do ...

average effect size increased from .85 to .93 of a stan- dard deviation unit. This figure would be analogous to reducing an illn ...

■ The degree to which clients reflect on, think about, and emotionally process material within sessions is positively associated ...

Manualized Treatment. A related, hotly debated issue is whether manual-based treatments should be used in clinical practice. Tre ...

Some General Conclusions Although most acknowledge that the efficacy of psychotherapy has been demonstrated, there is little evi ...

certain types of psychological problems. However, no one form of psychotherapy or intervention is superior for all problems. Cer ...

insightIn the context of psychotherapy, the achievement of understanding the nature and origins of one’sproblems. interpretation ...

12 Psychotherapy: The Psychodynamic Perspective 12 Psychotherapy: The Psychodynamic Perspective FOCUS QUESTIONS What are the ma ...

BOX12-4:Clinical Psychologist Perspective: Kenneth N. Levy, Ph.D. Interpretation and Insight Curative Factors The Lack of Emphas ...

time. He was quite successful, but then a complica- tion arose. Anna began to develop a strong emo- tional attachment to Breuer. ...

his hand against her forehead. Subsequently, Freud found that placing his hand on patients’foreheads and asking them to remember ...

operates according to thereality principle, deferring the gratification of instinctual urges until a suitable object and mode ar ...

child enters thelatency stage, which is characterized by a lack of overt sexual activity and, indeed, by an almost negative orie ...

time distort reality. All the defense mechanisms operate actively and involuntarily, without the per- son’s awareness. The basic ...

The true meaning of this insight is then brought into the patient’s consciousness by the working- through process. This refers t ...