How to Practice Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Mode [Hardcover]

Howard E. Book (Author), Book (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1998 | ISBN-10: 1557984654 | ISBN-13: 978-1557984654 | Edition: 2

How to Practice Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method is a clinically based and clinically illustrated manual that walks the reader through the development of the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) focus that is necessary to practice this specific form of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy (BPP). The CCRT Method is a research-supported, easily operationalized, valid, and reliable form of conducting a strongly interactive form of brief therapy. The CCRT method offers symptom relief and limited but significant character change in a 16-session format that focuses on and helps the client work through one crucial, circumscribed area of maladaptive personality style. Small changes in this one behavioral theme, or dimension, have been seen to be associated with larger more pervasive shifts in functioning. After presenting general background about the BPPs and specific discussion of the CCRT rationale and process, author Howard E. Book offers the reader a unique analysis of CCRT therapy in action. In an extended clinical vignette, the reader may follow therapist and client in a step-by-step manner, from initial session; to therapist formation, articulation, and presentation of the CCRT; through the tripartite 16-session course of therapy itself; and finally to termination and follow-up.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 179 pages
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA); 2 edition (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557984654
• ISBN-13: 978-1557984654
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #312,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enormously Helpful, January 25, 2007

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John C. Christopher (Bozeman, MT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Practice Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Mode (Hardcover)

I've been using this book for a number of years with my counseling students. Howard Book provides a very accessible framework that is tremendously helpful in clarifying client dynamics.

John Christopher, Ph.D.

Professor of Counseling Psychology

Montana State University

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very worthwhile publication, December 5, 2002

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Bill Angus (Point Roberts, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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I enjoyed this book immensely. It was refreshing to note that the "brief psychodynamic" perspective detailed by Book did not refer at all to the Freudian model of the psyche (id - ego - superego). Indeed the model presented could as easily have been termed "interpersonal relationship therapy", as there was little to betray its psychodynamic roots. Book had no need for the traditional psychodynamic model in order to use this therapeutic modality so, citing parsimony, he left it out.

1 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars would buy from again!, October 8, 2005

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my book arrived promptly and in great condition! i would certainly order from this seller again.