This book examines the training and supervision of psychotherapists, with a focus on psychotherapy efficacy.
Louis Georges Castonguay, PhD, completed his doctorate in clinical psychology at Stony Brook University, a clinical internship at U.C. Berkeley, and a post-doctorate at Stanford University. He is currently liberal arts professor of psychology at The Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on factors related to the process, outcome, and training of psychotherapy. In recent years he has conducted practice-oriented research aimed at better understanding and improving psychotherapy as practice in natural settings. He has more than 230 publications, including 12 co-edited books. Among these books is the 7th edition of the Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change, which he co-edited with Michael Barkham and Wolfgang Lutz.
Clara E. Hill, PhD, earned her doctorate at Southern Illinois University in 1974. She started her career in 1974 as an assistant professor in the department of psychology, University of Maryland and is currently still there as a professor. She has been president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, co-editor of Psychotherapy Research, and is currently the president of the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy (APA Division 29). Her major research interests are therapist skills, psychotherapy process and outcome, training and supervising therapists, dream work, meaning in life, and qualitative research. She has published 270+ journal articles, 75+ chapters in books, and 16 books (including Helping Skills, Dream Work in Therapy, Essentials of Consensual Qualitative Research, and Meaning in Life).
Chapter 1. Introduction to Becoming Better Psychotherapists
Louis G. Castonguay and Clara E. Hill
Part I. Conceptual and Empirical Foundations
Chapter 2. What Competencies Should Therapists Acquire and How Should They Acquire Them?
Louis G. Castonguay, James F. Boswell, Franz Caspar, Myrna L. Friedlander, Beatriz Gómez, Adele M. Hayes, Martin grosse Holtforth, Stanley B. Messer, Michelle G. Newman, and Bernhard M. Strauss
Chapter 3. Psychotherapy Training and Supervision With Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Clara E. Hill and Sarah Knox
Chapter 4. Professional Training and Supervision After Graduation: Is it Worthwhile?
Katie Aafjes-van Doorn and Jacques P. Barber
Michael J. Constantino, Alice E. Coyne, James F. Boswell, Marvin R. Goldfried, and Louis G. Castonguay
Chapter 6. Alliance-Focused Training: Teaching Therapists to Navigate Alliance RupturesCatherine F. Eubanks, J. Christopher Muran, and Lisa Wallner Samstag
Chapter 7. Training Therapists to Manage Countertransference via Reflective PracticeJeffrey A. Hayes, Claire C. Cartwright, and Fanghui Zhao
Chapter 8. Building a Theory of Therapist Responsiveness TrainingWilliams B. Stiles, Jordan Bate, and Timothy Anderson
Chapter 9. Deliberate Practice for Immediacy: Skill Use and Client OutcomeD. Martin Kivlighan III, and Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr.
Part III. Technology and Psychotherapy TrainingWolfgang Lutz, Anne-Katharina Deisenhofer, Birgit Weinmann-Lutz, and Michael Barkham
Chapter 11. Technology and Psychotherapy TrainingMatteo Bugatti, Zac E. Imel, and Jesse J. Owen
Part IV. Supervision and ConsultationMyrna L. Friedlander, Laurie Heatherington, Clara E. Hill, Sarah Knox, Catherine F. Eubanks, Lynne E. Angus, and Mengfei Xu
Chapter 13. Peer Consultation for Early Career Psychotherapists: A Preliminary StudyJ. Ryan Kilcullen, Louis G. Castonguay, Dever M. Carney, Katherine A. Davis, Natalie R. Pottschmidt, Samuel J. Knapp, Corrie L. Jackson, Neil A. Hemmelstein, and Ann Marie Frakes
Chapter 14. Informal Supervision: A Significant and Overlooked Aspect of Therapists' TrainingBarry A. Farber and Daisy Ort
Part V. Looking for the Best, Avoiding the Worst, and Exploring Lifelong Experiences in TrainingLaurie Heatherington, Jacques P. Barber, J. Ryan Kilcullen, Louis G. Castonguay, Katherine A. Davis, Peter Barry, and Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr.
Chapter 16. Nil Nocere: How to Avoid Harm in Psychotherapy TrainingBernhard M. Strauss and Dominique Frenzl
Chapter 17. The Role of Faith and Doubt in the Development of Six Psychotherapy Scholars and Practitioners: Implications for Training and Supervision