Critical Issues in Psychotherapy

Richard N. Williams is founding Director of the Wheatley Institution. From 2001 through 2008, he served as an Associate Academic Vice President for Faculty and Professor in the department of Psychology at Brigham Young University. His specialty areas include the philosophical, theoretical and historical foundations of psychology, with concentration on issues related to human agency, as well the science of psychology and research methods and statistics. Williams has authored, co-authored, or edited numerous journal, articles, and books. He has been a visiting faculty member at Duquesne University and at Georgetown University. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University in Psychological Science and is a summa cum laude graduate of Brigham Young University. Williams and his wife Camille have 5 children and 18 grandchildren. Click here to see a full professional curriculum vitae. Sally H. Barlow, Ph.D., has taught in the Psychology Department at Brigham Young University for 33 years where she received the Karl Maeser Award for Excellence in teaching. She has co-edited 2 books, and authored a third, published many articles and books chapters. An international expert in group psychotherapy, she has conducted workshops all over the world, and has served in a number of positions in professional organizations promoting the evidence-based practice of psychology.

Issue 1 Empirically Supported Treatments What's a Non-Behaviorist to Do? - Marian S Bergin Commentary Issue 2 Assessment - Constance T Fisher Psychological Assessment From Objectification Back to the Life World - Steven Lars Nielsen Commentary Issue 3 Biologization of Psychotherapy - Richard N Williams The Biologization of Psychotherapy Understanding the Nature of Influence - Louis A Moench Commentator Issue 4 Spirituality - Sally H Barlow and Allen E Bergin The Phenomenon of Spirit in a Secular Psychotherapy - Lorna Smith Benjamin Commentary Issue 5 Culture - Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand Psychotherapy as an Instrument of Culture - Lynne A Bennion Commentary Issue 6 Managed Care - David E Polkinghorne Managed Care Programs What Do Clinicians Need? - Lynne D Johnson Commentator Issue 7 Individualism - Frank C Richardson Individualism and Modern Psychotherapy - Judy Norman Commentary Issue 8 Scientist-Practitioner Model - Hendrika Vande Kemp The Patient-Philosopher Evaluates the Scientist-Practitioner A Case Study - James M Harper Commentary Issue 9 Free Will//Determinism - Joseph F Rychlak Psychotherapy as Practical Teleology Viewing the Person as an Agent - Diane L Spangler Commentary Issue 10 Eclecticism - Brent D Slife and Jeffrey Reber Eclecticism in Psychotherapy Is It Really the Best Substitute for Traditional Theories? - Ted Packard and Kay Packard Commentator Issue 11 Postmodernism - Barbara S Held What it Means for Psychotherapy - And What It Doesn't - Amy Fisher-Smith Commentary Issue 12 Multiculturalism - Blaine J Fowers Culture, Identity and Loyalty New Pathways for a Culturally Aware Psychotherapy - Agnes M Plenck Commentator Issue 13 Diagnosis - Robert L Woolfolk Objectivity in Diagnosis and Treatment A Philosophical Analysis - Daniel K Judd Commentary Issue 14 Feminism - Jeanne Marecek Bringing Feminist Issues to Therapy - Marybeth Raynes Commentary Conclusion - Daniel Robinson The Values of Psychotherapy

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