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Title The art and science of assessment in psychotherapy / edited by Chris Mace
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1995

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Description x, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction / Chris Mace -- 1. Why assess? / Digby Tantam -- 2. How I assess for psychoanalytic psychotherapy / Jeremy Holmes -- 3. How I assess for in-patient psychotherapy / John Denford -- 4. How I assess for family therapy / Stuart Lieberman -- 5. How I assess for group psychotherapy / Jane Knowles -- 6. How I assess for psychodrama groups, or, 'Would you like a cup of tea or coffee?' / Paul Holmes -- 7. How we assess for short-term cognitive behaviour therapy / Zindel V. Segal, Stephen R. Swallow, Lucio Bizzini and Beatrice Weber Rouget -- 8. How I assess in couple therapy / Michael Crowe -- 9. How I assess for focal therapy / Mark O. Aveline -- 10. Psychodynamic formulation in assessment for psychoanalytic psychotherapy / R. D. Hinshelwood -- 11. What is the point of a formulation? / Chess Denman -- 12. Building a cognitive model of psychotherapy assessment / Jan Birtle and Christopher D. Buckingham -- 13. When are questionnaires helpful? / Chris Mace
Summary The Art and Science of Assessment in Psychotherapy presents the practice and theory of assessment across a broad spectrum of psychotherapy. Individual chapters introduce assessment for eight forms of therapy ranging from psychoanalytic psychotherapy to cognitive behaviour therapy. Other chapters discuss the importance of formulation, the implications of research for the conduct of assessment, and the usefulness of auxiliary questionnaires. Contrasts in styles of assessment between different assessors, different therapies and different contexts are illustrated. Principles underlying the art and science of assessment are stressed, referring to therapeutic technique, criteria for selection, ethics, psychopathology and decision theory. The contributors are distinguished clinicians, trainers and researchers in their fields. Many of them share here how they approach and think during an assessment in ways that are revealing and instructive. Others present hitherto unpublished research so that the reader may join them at the cutting edge of investigation in this field. Throughout, the contributors draw on and summarise a wide literature, making the book an invaluable source for further exploration
Analysis Psychotherapy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Psychiatry -- Differential therapeutics.
Psychotherapy -- Decision-making.
Psychotherapy.
Process Assessment (Health Care)
Process Assessment (Health Care)
Psychotherapy.
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Author Mace, Chris, 1956-
LC no. 94046785
ISBN 0415105382
0415105390 (paperback)