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Record Nr.

UNINA9910304142903321

Autore

L'Abate Luciano

Titolo

Concreteness and Specificity in Clinical Psychology : Evaluations and Interventions / / by Luciano L'Abate

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-13284-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Disciplina

150

616.89

616.8914

Soggetti

Clinical psychology

Psychotherapy

Counseling

Clinical Psychology

Psychotherapy and Counseling

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Definitions of Terms -- The Future is Now: Online Interventions are here to stay and to grow -- Present Status and Future Perspectives for Personality and Family Assessment -- Practice without Theory -- Beyond Systems Thinking: Toward a Unifying Framework of Human Relationships -- Combining Theory with Practice -- Programmed Interactive Practice Exercises and Prescriptions -- Conclusion: Implications for Evaluation, Therapy, and Training.

Sommario/riassunto

This provocative volume updates L' Abate's signature ideas, focusing in particular on the concepts of concreteness and specificity as basic tenets of evaluation and therapy. Noting society's growing familiarity with technology, current concerns about treatment accessibility, and widespread interest in wellness promotion, he argues for remote-writing exercises targeted to specific client issues and monitored by the clinician instead of relying on traditional talk-based therapy. This attention to concreteness and specificity in baseline evaluation, post-treatment evaluation, and follow-up, the author asserts, is central to



making treatment replicable, less subject to impasses or missteps, and more professional, with the potential of changing how therapy is conducted as well as how clinicians are trained and practice. The book's framework includes rationales, models, empirical data, and examples of prescriptive remote-writing exercises.  Featured in the coverage:  Online interventions: here to stay and to grow. Verifiability in clinical psychology practices. Present status and future perspectives for personality and family assessment. Practice without theory/combining theory with practice. Toward a unifying framework of human relationships PIPES: Programmed Interactive Practice Exercise and Prescriptions. Concreteness and Specificity in Clinical Psychology will bring a new level of discussion and debate among clinical psychology practitioners and practicing psychotherapists in private practice and the public sector.