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1 online resource (234 pages) illustrations |
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Introduction -- Clinicians and Researchers -- Two Different Species -- Can the Clinicians' Questions Be Translated Into Researchable Terms? -- Interpersonal Experience as the Meeting Ground of Patients, Therapists, Schools, and Researchers -- Research Design -- Families at the Beginning of Treatment -- The Treatment Relation -- The Process of Change -- Changes in the Family Constellation -- Perspectives |
| Summary |
"This book is a report of a research project conducted within an ongoing treatment program for patient-families. It begins with an examination of the impact of research procedures on therapists and on the treatment process. It defines some differences between clinicians and researchers in their approach to treatment material and their methods of drawing inferences from these data. Next it traces the central questions used in this study to the clinical formulations from which they were derived--to their original source in the patients' own account of their problems and their experience of treatment. The concept of interpersonal experience was found crucial to theoretical and clinical formulations alike, calling for a method of study that would permit the reconstruction of theoretical and clinical concepts in these terms. This in turn led to a discussion of difficulties in the systematic study of interpersonal experiences during treatment and to the development of the research instrument used for this purpose. Findings about families in treatment are reported from the viewpoint of the patient, the therapist, and the investigator. A description of the experimental design and the application of research techniques to the productions of patients and therapists is followed by an account of the families at the beginning of treatment. The process of therapy and its effects are discussed in terms of the treatment relationship, the process of change for the individual, and changes observed in the family constellation. The final chapter is an attempt to view methods and findings in the light of my own professional learning and to place them in the context of results reported by other workers. Fittingly, this book closes with a list of new questions almost as long as the one at the beginning. This is not due only to the limitations of the sample or to the deficiencies of research technique, but in large part to this writer's enjoyment of the process of inquiry in a field where the limits are not yet in sight"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO) EBSCO |
| Subject |
Psychotherapy -- Case studies
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Counseling
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counseling.
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Psychotherapy.
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Case studies.
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Electronic book
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