Psychotherapy Training Contextual and Developmental Influences in Settings, Stages, and Mind Sets

Here is an informative new guide designed to improve the training and therapy effectiveness of psychotherapists by promoting a sensitivity to stages of development, clinical settings, and mind sets of trainees and supervisors. Other treatments of psychotherapy supervision and training often neglect the special influence of variations in setting which can lead to harmful or non-curative therapy. In this book emphasis is given to the need for training supervisors to recognize and make their students aware of the impact of setting and context on the approach and effectiveness of therapy. This is accomplished in this insightful volume by examining a variety of clinical environments and the specific elements that they bring to psychotherapy.
Individual chapters are written by professionals who bring their viewpoint as clinical supervisors, as well as their experience as scientist-practitioners, to their contributions. A variety of clinical settings are analyzed, including medical, military, and university settings, multi-agency centers, juvenile justice centers, therapeutic foster home programs, and older adult treatment facilities. An examination of the benefits and drawbacks of live supervision and the impact of ethnic and cultural influences on therapy training are also examined. Psychotherapy Training: Contextual and Developmental Influences in Settings, Stages and Mind Sets improves supervision by alerting students and trainers to the implicit demands and predictable problems unique to several treatment contexts and populations, and methods to overcome these obstacles to successful therapy. Supervisors and trainees, psychotherapy training faculty, and psychotherapy researchers will benefit from this enlightening book.