Learning supportive psychotherapy: an illustrated guide

by Winston, Arnold

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Full title :Learning supportive psychotherapy : an illustrated guide / Arnold Winston, M.D., Chairman Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, New York, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, Professor and Associate Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, St. George's Univeristy School of Medicine, St. George's, Grenada, Richard N. Rosenthal, M.D., M.A., Director of Addiction Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn, School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A., Chairman and Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley, McCormick Memorial Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

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"Learning Supportive Psychotherapy, second edition (first published in 2004 as Introduction to Supportive Psychotherapy and revised in 2012) is written for beginning therapists who need to learn the fundamentals of psychotherapy and in particular need to learn how to talk with psychotherapy patients. The book provides to the beginning resident clear guidelines for the conduct and progression of supportive psychotherapy in four major areas: forming and maintaining a positive therapeutic alliance, understanding and formulating patients' problems, setting realistic treatment goals, and knowing what to say to patients (technique). Included are a discussion of crisis intervention and the applicability of supportive psychotherapy to special populations, including patients with chronic mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring conditions. The book also includes a discussion of how to determine whether a psychiatry resident has achieved competence in supportive psychotherapy and concludes with a presentation of the evidence for the efficacy of supportive psychotherapy, including a number of outcome trials"--Provided by publisher.