The Great Psychotherapy Debate | Models, Methods, and Findings | Bruce

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The Great Psychotherapy Debate

ABSTRACT

This volume disproves the belief that certain psychotherapies are more effective in treating certain psychological problems than other therapies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|30 pages

Competing Meta-Models: The Medical Model Versus the Contextual Model

chapter 2|27 pages

Differential Hypotheses and Evidentiary Rules

chapter 3|14 pages

Absolute Efficacy: The Benefits of Psychotherapy Established by Meta-Analysis

chapter 4|47 pages

Relative Efficacy: The Dodo Bird Was Smarter Than We Have Been Led to Believe

chapter 5|30 pages

Specific Effects: Weak Empirical Evidence That Benefits of Psychotherapy are Derived From Specific Ingredients

chapter 6|10 pages

General Effects: The Alliance as a Case in Point

chapter 7|25 pages

Allegiance and Adherence: Further Evidence for the Contextual Model

chapter 8|19 pages

Therapist Effects: An Ignored but Critical Factor

chapter 9|30 pages

Implications of Rejecting the Medical Model