Clinical psychology and psychotherapy as a science: an iconoclastic perspective

This book demonstrates how clinical psychology and psychotherapy practices may reach a scientific level provided they change the three basic paradigms thathave controlled those practices in the last century. These three, now outdated, paradigms, are: (1) one-on-one (2) personal contacts (3) through talk. These paradigms have served well in the past but they are no less helpful in the current digitally focused world. INDICE: Historical Introduction to Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.-Toward a Science of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice.- The Cults of Psychotherapy.- Beyond Reliability and Validity: Toward Specificity in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.- Stepped Care Research in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.- Concreteness: Seven Psychological Orphansin Search of a Theory-Toward a Neo-behaviorist View.- Epilogue and Conclusions: Toward a Hierarchical Personnel Structure in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. . .

• ISBN: 978-1-4614-4450-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 30/09/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés