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Beyond Psychotherapy Programmed Writing and Structured Computer-Assisted Interventions
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Luciano L'Abate
Book Code: AB6542
ISBN: 1-56750-654-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-654-9
296 pages, figures, tables
Ablex Publishing
Publication: 11/30/2001
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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  • Endorsement From Marlene M. Maheu
    author of E-health, Telehealth & Telemedicine:     In this extraordinarily practical and visionary work, Dr. L'Abate dives into the essence of psychotherapy, and surfaces with a new model for treating patients with or without new technologies. He provides both a step-by-step guide and fully-developed tools for working with adults, couples and families. This book is a must-read for all professional who want to seize the moment, make reasonable changes to the way they practice, and improve outcomes with their patients.
Description: The field of psychotherapy is beset by a variety of problems including relative ineffectiveness, relatively high cost, and low availability. Hence, a more cost-effective, efficient and mass-producible method is needed that the current talk-based approach lacks. This volume explains that programmed distance writing - workbooks - can fill that need. Workbooks are inexpensive, specific, controllable, verifiable, and can be transmitted via the Internet to be used in clinical treatment, prevention, rehabilitation and research, all at a cost saving over talk therapy. The rationale behind workbooks for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families is explained. Professionals in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, counseling, and social work will find this approach intriguing, as will academics and researchers seeking economic ways to link theory with practice. This volume will also interest graduate students studying alternative methods of behavioral intervention.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Between Nothing and Psychotherapy
  • Writing and Its Applicants in Psychotherapy
  • Applications of Workbooks in Psychotherapy
  • Specific Applications of Workbooks
  • Linking Theory with Workbooks in Psychotherapy: Possible If You Have the "Right" Theory
  • Verifiability: Linking Theory with Research and Practice
  • Psychotherapy in the 21st Century: What Is Going to Happen?
  • Appendices
LC Card Number: 2001031648
LCC Class: RC489
Dewey Class: 616
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