Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness of Psychotherapy
Edited by David Spiegel, M.D.
In recent years, many have questioned the effectiveness of psychotherapy techniques. Advances in psychopharmacology have diverted attention from the many benefits of psychotherapy. Psychotherapists from around the world have compiled their research and clinical experience as it applies to various psychotherapeutic treatments in this invaluable reference. These leading experts describe their methods of assessment and treatment and provide new evidence for the effectiveness of these interventions. This book covers
- Specific psychotherapeutic techniques from dynamic to cognitive behavioral, individual to group, and inpatient to outpatient and applies these techniques to new populations
- Up-to-date theories on using psychotherapy to treat posttraumatic stress disorder, psychosis and personality disorders, depression, and the medically ill
- The efficacy and cost-effectiveness of psychotherapeutic techniques
- Both theoretical and empirical approaches to specific psychotherapies and provides a theoretical basis for planning psychotherapy
- New evidence that psychotherapy works to improve patient adjustment and make psychiatric and medical management more cost-effective
Complete with case examples and extensive references, it’s a must read for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and students of psychotherapy
Contents
Introduction. Thinking through psychotherapy: configurational analysis method of case formulation. Part I: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Cognitive-behavioral theory and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related disorders. Part II: Psychosis and Personality Disorders. Contemporary practice of inpatient psychotherapy. Efficacy and cost offset of psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder. Cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy for depression. Part III: Medical Illness. Psychotherapy for the medically-surgically ill. Psychotherapy for cancer patients. Index.
Reviews
"Spiegel and his expert contributors launch a heroic effort to lead us through this complicated maze. Clinicians and administrators need to read these essays to become enlightened as to where psychiatry and psychotherapy need to go. . . . It is a timely publication that should prove enormously useful for the clinician practicing and teaching psychotherapy."—Psychiatric Times
"At a time when the psychological understanding and treatment of human illness are under perilous siege, the contents of this volume offer a significant and opportune measure of relief to the beleaguered. Surveying the major categories of psychotherapy in current use and the indications for their application to a broad spectrum of clinical disorders, the contributors to Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness of Psychotherapy provide cogent evidence of the effectiveness of such treatment modalities in relieving human suffering and their cost-effectiveness in the larger social dimensions of medical care. That is a vital message that should be widely broadcast to clinicians and health care administrators alike."—John C. Nemiah, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire
"If this book is any indication, the future of psychotherapy is very bright indeed. David Spiegel, one of the most innovative thinkers in the field of psychotherapy, has assembled an impressive list of contributors who describe the current state of psychotherapy and the likely future course of this important endeavor. This includes the latest update on Spiegel’s own psychotherapeutic approaches to cancer patients as well as modern approaches to medical-surgical patients, trauma patients, and those with psychosis and personality disorders. In this age of managed care the all-important issue of cost effectiveness is detailed with some surprising conclusions, No psychotherapists or student of psychotherapy will want to miss this book."—David H. Barlow, M.D., Director, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
About the Authors
David Spiegel, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California.
Ordering Information
1999 · 216 pages · ISBN 9780880487696 · Hardcover · $74.00 · Item #8769 Buy this title NOW!
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