…erienced by individuals who need mental health services but do not receive psychotherapy. Consequently, psychotherapy should be included in the health care system as an established evidence-based practice. Over the past five years, I have noticed a change in the general public. People seem to be speaking more openly about being in psychotherapy. Bloggers casually mention “in my last session, my therapist said to me …” Friends and co-workers discus…
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…Well, it does come in two parts. It’s two books in one. The first part of Psychotherapy – Relationships that Work is about which psychotherapy styles and relationship behaviors do work. And then the second part is what are the treatment adaptations that work? So to simplify that a bit, the first part is what works in general? After 50 years of psychotherapy research, what do we know that therapists can and should be doing to promote more change?…
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…ow people change on their own, without psychotherapy, with a little bit of psychotherapy, only in psychotherapy. There’s this wonderful continua of change. We need not think about self-help and psychotherapy as antagonistic. They’re quite complementary. In fact, Jim always likes to say, “Psychotherapy is professionally coached self-change.” So, it’s all synergistic. What we know about how people change on their own and what we know from how people…
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…ou need to have at least some of those skills, not all the skills of every psychotherapy, but some of those skills from each of those kinds of groups. JN: Yes. So, the criticism that integration will require us to know everything, in my mind, is really quite bogus. What we really need is a skill set, treatment methods and relationship styles for people in the early stages, and then one in the later stages. So it’s really one from column A, one fro…
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…encounter groups, procedures that broke out of the narrow confines of the psychotherapy office setting and extended into the business arena, education, and even international relations. People were challenging the status quo in every aspect of their psychological lives and were willing to look at painful issues. In the course of these events, many important but disturbing truths were being revealed. The hidden aspects of both sexuality and family…
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…wed by resources and list of comprehensive, relevant online resources. Educational Objectives: This course will teach psychotherapists to Define and apply construct, such as morality, virtue, ethics, rights, fairness and justice. Identify different ethical decision-making models in psychotherapy. Apply ethical decision-making processes to their practices. Apply ethical decision-making to dual relationships situations. Explain the forces that contr…
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…d Dr. John C. Norcross. LF: So, what do you see as kind of the future of psychotherapy, particularly of integrative psychotherapy? JN: You know, every ten years, Jim Petrowski and I conduct a Delphi poll of expert psychotherapists about what’s going to occur in the next 10 years. We do so because we know using this Delphi method, it’s far more accurate forecasting, and also, because one or two people bring their own biases. But when you have 70…
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…n and Contemplation. The second thing to do, is not to focus on one-on-one psychotherapy. Even though that’s what you and I practice and I teach. We know that’s not the most efficient way of reaching the entire population: No epidemic was solved by treating one person at a time. So instead, we may have to become more creative with computerized therapies, self-help resources, large groups, community networks. I don’t find any of these to be incompa…
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…out to any of the treatment adaptations and the pioneers who write in our Psychotherapy-Relationships that Work book, there are an increasing number of integrative institutes around the world. But the truth is, integration has not branded itself in the way that some of the other dominant systems of psychotherapy have. That’s just part of the socio-economic fabric of the Western world, particularly the United States. In integration, we don’t want…
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…e future of psychotherapy LF: So, what do you see as kind of the future of psychotherapy, particularly of integrative psychotherapy? JN: You know, every ten years, Jim Petrowski and I conduct a Delphi poll of expert psychotherapists about what’s going to occur in the next 10 years. We do so because we know using this Delphi method, it’s far more accurate forecasting, and also, because one or two people bring their own biases. But when you have 70…
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