Review of Effective Psychotherapy: A Handbook of Research. Edited by Alan S. Gurman and Andrew M. Razin. Pergamon General Psychology Series, vol. 70. Elmsford, N.Y.: Pergamon Press, 1977

摘要

This volume, together with S. Garfield and A. Bergin's revised Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978), provides the mental health practitioner and student who are willing to explore the merits of a scientific approach to practice with excellent beginning points. A reading of this volume will provide a sense of the current conceptual and methodological limits circumscribing the scientific study of the intervenor in psychotherapy and the product of that study to date. Most important, the reader will have an opportunity to experience the process of an effectiveness-oriented, empirically based, scientific approach to understanding practice.