Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change

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Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change is a comprehensive reference celebrating its 50th anniversary with the seventh edition. It offers an essential and rigorous overview of psychotherapy research, highlighting evidence-based practices for academics, researchers, practitioners, and students. The handbook covers historical and methodological issues, measuring efficacy, therapeutic ingredients and approaches, delivery formats, and future directions in psychotherapy. Contributors across ten countries present updated chapters on topics like effective therapist characteristics, mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies, personalised treatment, online delivery, and scaling therapy to meet broader needs.
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This handbook is ideal for psychotherapists, clinical researchers, graduate students, and mental health professionals seeking a detailed, evidence-based exploration of psychotherapy research and practice.

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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a best-selling and renowned reference in psychotherapy research and practice.

Now celebrating its 50th anniversary and in its seventh edition, Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change maintains its position as the essential reference volume for psychotherapy research. This bestselling reference remains the most important overview of research findings in psychotherapy. It is a rigorous and evidence-based text for academics, researchers, practitioners, and students.

In recognition of the 50th anniversary, this edition contains a Foreword by Allen Bergin. The Handbook covers the following main themes: historical and methodological issues, measuring and evidencing change in efficacy and practice-based research, therapeutic ingredients, therapeutic approaches and formats, increasing precision and scale of delivery, and future directions in the field of psychotherapy research. Chapters have either been completely rewritten and updated or comprise new topics by contributors including:

Characteristics of effective therapists
Mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies
Personalised treatment approaches
The internet as a medium for treatment delivery
Models of therapy and how to scale up treatment delivery to address unmet needs

The newest edition of this renowned Handbook offers state-of-the-art updates to the key areas in psychotherapy research and practice today. Over 60 authors, experts in their fields, from over 10 countries have contributed to this anniversary edition, providing in-depth, measured, and insightful summaries of the current field.

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Praised as an enduring and authoritative resource, this handbook is lauded by experts such as Albert Bandura, who commends its thorough research, insightful interpretations, and focus on improving therapeutic efficacy. Another reviewer highlights the book as a professional lodestar, valuing its up-to-date coverage of new therapies, process variables, methodologies, and emphasis on diversity.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119536581

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 October 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 7th edition

Contributors:

Edited by Wolfgang Lutz
Edited by Louis G. Castonguay
Edited by Michael Barkham

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 41.0mm

Width: 224.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 1882g

Pages: 848

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About the Author

Michael Barkham, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has over 35 years of experience researching the processes and outcomes of psychological therapies, focusing on the development of outcome measures, conducting pragmatic trials, and the analyses of large practice-based data sets.

Wolfgang Lutz, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Trier, Germany. His research focuses on change in psychotherapy and aims at supporting personalized decision-making based on empirical data. He is a former editor of Psychotherapy Research and president-elect of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.

Louis G. Castonguay, PhD, is Liberal Arts Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Penn State University, USA. His research focuses on factors related to the process and impact of psychotherapy. He is also involved in practice-oriented research and practice research networks. He has served as president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.