Clinical Psychology Evolving Theory, Practice, and Research

, by Sundberg, Norman D.; Winebarger, Allen A.; Taplin, Julian R.

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Bridging the gap between practicing clinicians and researchers, this comprehensive introduction is designed to provide a firm understanding of the basics of clinical psychology. It stresses the importance of theory, quality research, prevention, assessment skills and clinical abilities in interventions. The authors provide many examples and provocative presentations of issues that engages readers in lively and current clinical concerns.The book provides an introduction to basic concepts, and details assessment, evaluation and research within clinical psychology as well as clinical work in forensics, psychopharmacology and more.For individuals interested in broad-based introduction to clinical psychology.

Preface

Section I: Introduction and Basic Concepts

Clinical Psychology: Nature, History and Neighboring Professins

(26)

The Nature of Clinical Psychology

(8)

Professional knowledge, skills, and attitudes

(1)

Clinical settings, clients, and activities

(2)

Jeremy Sherman

(2)

Mary Lopez

(1)

James Starkey

(1)

Comments

(1)

A Brief History of Clinical Psychology

(11)

Period I: The early years

(1)

Period II: A time of consolidation

(3)

Period III: Rapid growth

(1)

Period IV: Mixed development and professional proliferation

(1)

Period V: Recent developments and the future

(3)

Neighboring Professions

(6)

The four core mental health professions

(2)

Paraprofessionals

(1)

Master degrees in mental health work

(3)

Useful Ideas About People: Theoretical Perspectives

(30)

Four Broad Background Perspectives

(18)

Systems---Biological, psychological, sociopolitical

(4)

Stress and coping

(2)

Timing and development over the life cycle

(7)

Self, possibilities, and choice

(5)

Five Orientations for Clinical Work

(1)

Natural helping orientation

(1)

Curative orientation

(1)

Learning orientation

(1)

Growth orientation

(1)

Ecological orientation

(1)

Introduction to Three Historical Theories and Their Leading Proponents

(9)

The psychodynamic tradition---Freud

(1)

The behavioral and cognitive tradition---Skinner and Ellis

(4)

The humanistic tradition---Rogers

(3)

Helping Without Harming: Designs, Decisions, and Ethics

(34)

Primum Non Nocere: The ``Prime Directive'' for Clinical Careers

(1)

Factors Influencing Decisions About Interventions

(12)

Attitudes and expectations about interventions

(1)

Basic orientations to intervention

(3)

Importance of the treatment of choice

(1)

Possible side effects---The case for caution

(3)

Diagnosis---The challenge of classification

(5)

Goals in Intervention: Plans and Contracts

(3)

Designing a plan

(1)

Confusion about goals

(1)

Carrying out the plan---Case management

(1)

Avoiding Distortion and Bias

(3)

Origins of distortions and biases: Money, workload, and personality issues

(2)

Overestimating one's predictive ability

(1)

Ethics: The Guide to Effective and Safe Clinical Practice

(14)

The APA Ethics Code

(6)

Other official guidelines

(2)

Do ethical codes truly aid the clinician's quest to help without harming?

(2)

The role of ethics in the development of a professional sense of self

(3)

Section II: Assessment, Evaluation, and Research: Skills and Issues Related to Effective Clinical Endeavors

Assessment and Testing: Tools for Gathering Information

(37)

The Purposes of Assessment

(3)

Decision making

(1)

Developing a working image or model

(1)

Hypothesis checking

(1)

The Assessment Process at Work

(1)

How Assessment Processes Influence the Selection and Use of Clinical Tools

(1)

The Basic Methods: Interviewing and Observation

(12)

Interviewing skills

(4)

Typical stages of clinical interviews

100

(3)

Types of interviews

103

(4)

Observing

107

(1)

Tests and Testing

108

(20)

A general introduction to psychological testing

109

(1)

Issues related to the construction of tests

110

(2)

The administration of tests

112

(1)

Tests of abilities and cognitive functioning

112

(1)

Tests of intelligence

113

(2)

Deficit and cerebral dysfuntion

115

(1)

General achievement and aptitude tests

115

(1)

Tests of personality and socioemotional functioning

116

(5)

Single and specialized scales and inventories

121

(1)

Projective techniques

122

(3)

Other areas of assessment and a challenge

125

(3)

Using Assessment Information: Interpretation and Communication

128

(34)

Influences Surrounding the Final Phases of Assessment

131

(3)

General orientations to clinical assessment and formulation

134

(1)

The Making of Meaning---Clinical Interpretation and Clinical Formulation

134

(8)

Selecting what is important

138

(1)

Sample, correlate, and sign: Levels of interpretation

139

(1)

Clinical formulation

139

(3)

Aids to Interpretation---Quantitative and Computerized

142

(6)

Sources of quantitative information for interpretation

142

(3)

Computer-based test interpretation

145

(2)

Clinical versus statistical contributions

147

(1)

Communication of Findings

148

(8)

Writing a report

148

(3)

Ethical issues in report writing

151

(1)

Pitfalls in writing reports

152

(4)

Comments

156

(6)

Being Accountable: Research and Evaluation

162

(29)

What Is Accountability?

163

(1)

Expanding Clinical Knowledge

164

(2)

Personal learning

164

(1)

The contexts of discovery and justification

164

(2)

Research in Clinical Psychology

166

(13)

Research consumers and research producers

166

(1)

The place of assessment in general research

166

(2)

Research considerations about treatment and prevention

168

(11)

Program Evaluation

179

(9)

Process and outcome evaluation

183

(1)

Formative and summative evaluation

184

(1)

Steps in developing an evaluation study

185

(3)

Research, Evaluation, and Policy

188

(1)

Comments

189

(2)

Section III: Clinical Work Across The Life Span

Introduction to Interventions: Psychotherapy and Counseling

191

(44)

The Nature and Purposes of Psychological Interventions and Psychotherapy

192

(3)

What is psychotherapy?

193

(2)

Psychodynamic Therapies

195

(11)

Freud's evolving thought

195

(5)

Early offshoots of Freudian psychoanalysis---Jung, Adler, Horney, and Sullivan

200

(2)

Later developments in psychodynamic thought

202

(2)

Attachment theory

204

(1)

Comments on psychoanalytical and psychodynamic therapies

204

(2)

Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies

206

(12)

Classical conditioning

206

(1)

Operant conditioning

207

(2)

Cognition and behavior

209

(8)

Comments on behavioral and cognitive-behavioral therapies

217

(1)

Humanistic Therapies

218

(7)

Evolution of the ``third force''

219

(1)

Client-centered or person-centered therapy

220

(1)

Gestalt therapy

220

(2)

Transpersonal psychology

222

(1)

Comments on humanistic therapies

222

(3)

Additional Therapeutic Approaches

225

(1)

Commonalities, Differences, Eclecticism, and Integrational Therapies

226

(3)

Counseling for Development

229

(6)

The continued evolution of counseling

231

(4)

Working With Children: Intervening Across Environments

235

(32)

Elizabeth Schaughency

Amy Matthews

Unique Issues in Working With Children: Developmental Considerations in the Determination of Abnormality and Need for Intervention

237

(6)

Age as a consideration when evaluating psychological adjustment

237

(1)

A different diagnostic system for children?

237

(3)

Permanence of childhood disorders

240

(3)

Different Models of Service Delivery for Working With Children

243

(8)

Developmental issues

244

(2)

Contextual issues

246

(2)

School-based mental health services

248

(1)

Special education and services for students with disabilities

249

(2)

Special Considerations Related to Developmental and Contextual Issues: Ethical and Legal Issues

251

(1)

Implications for Specialized Skills and Training for Working With Children

252

(3)

A Brief History of Specialties in Professional Psychology That Serve Children, Youth, and Their Families

255

(6)

Clinical child psychology

256

(1)

School psychology

257

(4)

Psychologists Specializing in Health Issues in Children: Pediatric Psychology and Pediatric Neuropsychology

261

(2)

Pediatric psychology

261

(1)

Pediatric neuropsychology

262

(1)

Comments

263

(4)

Working With Adults: Seeking Effective Interventions With Individuals and Groups

267

(35)

Individual Psychotherapy---Variety and Commonality

268

(3)

Is Individual Psychotherapy for Adults Effective?

271

(3)

Individual psychotherapy versus pharmaceutical therapy

274

(1)

Individual psychotherapy: Are the consumers happy?

275

(1)

How the Participants Impact the Process: Therapist and Client Characteristics

276

(3)

Therapist characteristics

277

(2)

Client characteristics that may impact therapeutic success

279

(1)

Examples of Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Selected Disorders

279

(8)

Anxiety disorders

280

(2)

Depression

282

(3)

Schizophrenia

285

(2)

Comments on Individual Therapy

287

(6)

Groups

293

(9)

Group psychotherapy

295

(2)

Psychodrama and role-playing

297

(1)

Cognitive-behavioral structured learning groups

298

(1)

Self-help groups

299

(1)

Psychoeducational and other groups

299

(1)

How effective is group therapy?

300

(2)

Working With Older Adults: Relating Interventions to Aging

302

(28)

Martha R. Crowther

Antonette M. Zeiss

Society and Aging

303

(2)

Demographics

304

(1)

Proficiency in Geropsychology

305

(3)

Psychopathology in Older Adults

308

(14)

Depression

309

(1)

Anxiety

310

(1)

Dementia

311

(1)

Other problems that could be a focus of treatment

312

(10)

Psychological Interventions

322

(1)

Assessment: Being sensitive to issues of aging

322

(1)

Psychotherapy: General observations about adaptations and effectiveness

323

(1)

Psychotherapy With Older Adults

323

(3)

Common adaptations

324

(1)

Psychological interventions in the context of interdisciplinary teams

325

(1)

Comments

326

(4)

Taking the Body Into Account: Health Psychology, Neuropsychology, and Medication

330

(36)

Lawrence R. Burns

Kristopher J. Selke

Risa J. Stein

Walker S. Carlos Poston II

Health Psychology

331

(15)

What is health and health psychology?

332

(2)

Biological, psychological, and social influences on health and disease

334

(1)

Genetics

334

(1)

Stress, social supports, and coping

335

(1)

Assessment in health psychology

335

(2)

Introducing and maintaining treatment

337

(2)

Psychological treatment procedures

339

(4)

Pain and the interdisciplinary nature of health psychology

343

(2)

Health psychology and prevention

345

(1)

Neuropsychology

346

(10)

What is neuropsychology?

346

(2)

Some basic neuroanatomy

348

(4)

Neuropsychological assessment

352

(4)

Psychopharmacology

356

(8)

Neurotransmitter interaction with receptors

357

(1)

Neurotransmitter types

357

(1)

Psychopharmacological effectiveness considerations

357

(2)

Neurotransmitter systems

359

(5)

Comments

364

(2)

Section IV: Clinical Work in Broader Contexts

Forensic Psychology: Applying Psychology in the Legal System

366

(30)

Charles Ruby

The Definition of Forensic Psychology

368

(1)

Terminology

368

(1)

A Process Classification Scheme for Forensic Psychology

369

(20)

Investigative forensic psychology

370

(9)

Adjudicative forensic psychology

379

(5)

Preventive forensic psychology

384

(5)

Ethical and Legal Considerations for Forensic Psychological Evaluations

389

(4)

Who is the forensic psychologist's client?

391

(1)

On the stand

391

(1)

Scientific rigor

392

(1)

Comments

393

(3)

Working With Small Systems: Families and Couples

396

(25)

Indications and Contraindications for Family Therapy

397

(1)

A Brief History of Family Therapy

398

(3)

Some basic concepts and principles

399

(2)

Kinds of Therapy With Families

401

(5)

``Bowenian'' or transgenerational family therapy

401

(1)

Communication and Satir family therapy

402

(1)

Experiential family therapy

402

(1)

Milan family therapy

403

(1)

Constructivist or narrative family therapy

404

(1)

Solution-focused family therapy

404

(1)

Strategic family therapy

404

(1)

Structural family therapy

405

(1)

Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral family therapies

406

(1)

Psychodynamic and object-relations family therapies

406

(1)

Causation and Blame in Family Therapy

406

(1)

Does Family Therapy Work?

407

(2)

An Example of Family Therapy

409

(2)

Therapy With Couples

411

(2)

Selected Kinds of Couple Therapy

413

(2)

Behavioral couple therapy (BCT)

413

(1)

Cognitive behavioral couple therapy (CBCT)

414

(1)

Emotionally focused couple therapy (EFCT)

414

(1)

Does Couple Therapy Work?

415

(1)

Which type of couple therapy works best?

416

(1)

Prevention Programs with Couples: Does an Ounce of Prevention Equal a Pound of Cure?

416

(3)

Examples of Couple Therapy

419

(2)

Prevention: A Goal Throughout Interventions

421

(29)

Prevention and Clinical Work---A Natural Combination

422

(3)

Why care about prevention?

423

(1)

Prevention's historical role in mental health

423

(2)

Community Psychology

425

(1)

Approaches to Prevention and Related Issues

426

(4)

Classification of prevention programs

426

(3)

Integration of prevention and therapy

429

(1)

Risk and Protective Factors---The Two Faces of Prevention

430

(7)

Risk factors

430

(3)

Protective factors

433

(3)

The interaction of risk and protective factors

436

(1)

Do Prevention Programs Work?

437

(6)

Examples of universal prevention programs

438

(1)

Examples of selective preventive interventions

438

(2)

Examples of indicated preventive interventions

440

(3)

The Future of Prevention Interventions, Research, and Practice

443

(3)

Comments

446

(4)

Working With Larger Systems: Organizations, Communities, and Societal Issues

450

(27)

Organizations

451

(10)

The psychologist in managerial leadership

453

(4)

Mental health organizations

457

(1)

Professional advocacy and accrediting organizations

457

(3)

Organizational consulting

460

(1)

Community

461

(9)

What is a community?

461

(1)

Community subsystems

461

(3)

Needs for cohesion among subsystems

464

(2)

Cultural competence

466

(1)

The work of community psychologists

466

(3)

Improving social systems

469

(1)

Building competence and empowerment

470

(1)

Societal Issues and Policies

470

(3)

Learning from other states and countries

472

(1)

Comments

473

(4)

Epilogue

477

(4)

References

481

(59)

Name Index

540

(10)

Subject Index

550

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