INTEGRATIVE PARADIGMS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY with Jan R. Prell Publisher: Allyn & Bacon Date of Publication: 1993 ISBN: 0205148239 Publisher's Description: Here is an opportunity for enhancing psychotherapeutic effectiveness, integrity, and personal satisfaction through larger, broader, and more expansive paradigms that allow clinicians to examine and discover the parameters of their psychotherapeutic orientation without changing to a new model. Clearly written and extremely practical, this resource helps psychotherapists clarify and reevaluate their psychotherapeutic trainings which are exclusively based on a treatment of choice orientation. They then focus on disengaging the developmental beliefs of both psychotherapists and clients. They go on to show why psychotherapists from different training backgrounds often disagree about diagnosis, etiology, and treatment as they examine four perceptual attitudes through which all psychotherapists view the etiology of conflict or harmony in their clients. Three theoretical structures to help psychotherapists identify basic therapeutic beliefs and values are presented. The valuable appendices, a glossary and two indexes round out this fascinating book. REVIEWSR. Leo Sprinkle Journal of Contemporary Psychology November 1995, Vol.40, No.11 The writers are consistent and evenhanded, in example as well as exposition. Whether they are examining differences between psychiatrists in using... codes for diagnoses; considering transpersonal orientations and extrasensory perceptions; or comparing interview transcripts of sessions using affective, behavioral, or cognitive methodologies, the writers are comfortable and competent in their analytic and writing styles. Orcutt and Prell neither adulate nor denigrate proponents of various schools of psychotherapy. Indeed, they foster the expectation that all practitioners can minimize the limitations of their training and maximize their helping potentials. Reading these simple but profound statements of what psychotherapy is, and can be, is like sitting with two master teachers who share their essence as well as their experience. This book is recommended for any psychotherapist, especially for experienced practitioners who seek to expand their awareness as well as enhance their repertoire. Orcutt and Prell provide approaches that can comfort, as well as challenge, any counselor, priest, shaman, or practitioner who dedicates self and service to client well-being by furthering client development of body, mind, and soul. Sally Moore-Pollock Hutchinson and Associates, Kansas City Missouri I have never read a more interesting and thought-provoking book, and I read in the field voraciously. The audience that will appreciate this book is the high quality professional in the field who is hungry for the kind of challenge to their thinking that this [book] provides....It challenges the professional, provides food for thought throughout, and evokes a questioning of methodology for the professional... a superior work in the field... a pleasure to read. Jill Walters University of North Texas, Denton The first major strength of this manuscript is the way it integrates well-known and accepted ideas into a new way of viewing them. The authors challenge the reader to go beyond himself or herself as a therapist in order to better serve the client....The second major strength is the use of case examples to illustrate the theoretical points....A third major strength is the use of diagrams to illustrate theoretical structures. Lynne A. Kellner University of Massachusetts, Amherst One of the major strength of the book is how easy it is to read; it is enjoyable and on the whole the writing flows well....The agenda of the book is well-formulated and makes sense... the [book] offers a basis for a sound, interesting addition to the field. Their emphasis on the therapist’s clarification of personal belief structures and implications for intervention is very important. THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY OUT-OF-PRINT, BUT IS AVAILABLE IN USED AND NEW COPIES ON AMAZON.COM. |
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