Core processes in brief psychodynamic psychotherapy : advancing effective practice / edited by Denise Charman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Initiating and Assessing Suitability for Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy -- 1. Effective Psychotherapy and Effective Psychotherapists / Denise P. Charman -- 2. Optimizing Outcome Through Prediction and Measurement of Psychological Functioning / Michael J. Lambert, Robert D. Hunt and David A. Vermeersch -- 3. The First Interview / Bonnie A. Rudolph -- 4. Assessing Patient Capacities for Therapy: Psychological-Mindedness and Quality of Object Relations / Anthony S. Joyce and Mary McCallum -- Pt. II. Determining and Maintaining a Focus -- 5. Outcomes and Factors Related to Efficacy of Brief Psychodynamic Therapy / Stanley B. Messer and Amelia H. Kaplan -- 6. Case Formulation: Determining the Focus in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy / Tracy D. Eells and Kenneth G. Lombart -- 7. Constructing Interpretations and Assessing Their Accuracy / Mary Beth Connolly Gibbons, Paul Crits-Christoph and Phillip Apostol -- 8. The Evidence: Transference Interpretations and Patient Outcomes - A Comparison of "Types" of Patients / John Ogrodniczuk and William Piper -- Pt. III. Keeping an Eye on the Relationship -- 9. Defining and Identifying Alliance Ruptures / Lisa Wallner Samstag, J. Christopher Muran and Jeremy D. Safran -- 10. The Power of Ground Rules / Robert Langs -- 11. Countertransference and Its Management in Brief Dynamic Therapy / Charles J. Gelso -- 12. Maintaining the Therapeutic Alliance: Resolving Alliance-Threatening Interactions Related to the Transference / Dawn Bennett and Glenys Parry -- Pt. IV. Ending and Evaluating -- 13. Ending Therapy: Processes and Outcomes / Denise P. Charman and Anne C. Graham -- 14. Termination, Posttermination, and the Internalization of Therapy and the Therapist: Internal Representation and Psychotherapy Outcome / Elizabeth G. Arnold, Barry A. Farber and Jesse D. Geller -- 15. Measuring Clinically Significant Change / Michael J. Lambert and Ted P. Asay -- Pt. V. Special Issues -- 16. Critical Factors in Supervision: The Patient, the Therapist, and the Supervisor / Susan Allstetter Neufeldt -- 17. The Ethical Challenges of Brief Therapy / Elizabeth Reynolds Welfel -- 18. Curative Factors in Work With Older Adults / Michael Duffy -- App. The Case Study: The Therapy, the Patient, and the Therapist / Jackie Fosbury.

"Thoughtfully building on current debates over efficacy and effectiveness, this book outlines a promising approach to training in which the work of therapy is divided into tasks patterned after Luborsky's influential delineation of "curative factors," significant developments in the course of the therapy that are crucial for effective change. Each task step for the therapist - cognitive, behavioral, affective, or a combination - is analyzed, taught separately, and then put in sequence with the other tasks steps. Curative factors have been extensively studied in recent years and the approach rests on a solid empirical base." "In a climate of increased accountability, clinicians must demonstrate that they are responding to providers' requests to conduct evidence-based practices. Core Processes in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy will be an invaluable resource not only for students and trainees but for established therapists who find themselves asked to justify their work."--BOOK JACKET.

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