Short-term Anxiety-provoking Psychotherapy

Short-term Anxiety-provoking Psychotherapy
Author: Peter E. Sifneos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1992-05-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

"Short-Term Anxiety-Provoking Psychotherapy (STAPP) is the oldest systematically studied type of brief psychotherapy in the United States. Developed in the 1950s by Peter Sifneos, it has become increasingly popular in recent years. Mental health professionals in Europe and the Americas have flocked to Sifneos's workshops, seminars, and lectures. Now, at last, in response to numerous requests for information, Sifneos has compiled this step-by-step guide to his method." "STAPP represents a distillation of traditional psychoanalytic techniques tapping the patient's ability both to establish a transference relationship with the therapist and to understand the roots of psychological conflicts. Although designed to help relatively healthy people with a single circumscribed emotional problem, STAPP gives patients the tools for dealing with future problems after therapy has terminated. The "short-term" in STAPP usually represents several months and rarely exceeds a year, a time span that not only eases the financial burden but contributes to the likelihood that the patient will complete the course of therapy. The "anxiety-provoking" component, Sifneos says, reflects the therapist's role as a teacher - an objective person who raises questions that wouldn't have occurred to the patient precisely because they are anxiety-inducing." "With its rich clinical material. this manual provides innumerable examples of new options available to therapists, enlarging and enriching their therapeutic armamentarium."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Short-term Psychotherapy and Emotional Crisis

Short-term Psychotherapy and Emotional Crisis
Author: Peter Emanuel Sifneos
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1972
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780674807204

Peter Sifneos describes a type of active and brief psychotherapeutic intervention which he believes is tremendously useful for selected patients with circumscribed emotional difficulties. The therapist assists the patient in defining the conflict underlying his dilemma and helps him learn to solve his emotional problems. As a result of this novel educational experience, the patient is able to use these newly acquired techniques to deal with other hazardous situations after the end of treatment. Indeed, the author maintains, the treatment is similar to an immunization procedure that enables certain individuals to prevent the development of emotional difficulties in the future. Dr. Sifneos describes two forms of this short-term therapy, "crisis-intervention" and anxiety-provoking--with emphasis on the latter--and presents in detail the theoretical background, criteria for selection of appropriate patients, technique, and illustrative case material.

An Integrated Approach to Short-Term Dynamic Interpersonal Psychotherapy

An Integrated Approach to Short-Term Dynamic Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Author: Joan Haliburn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 042991072X

Short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy is an integrated, trauma-informed, contemporary, dynamic way of working with a range of mental health difficulties. Flexible though structured, phase-oriented, focused and time-limited, it is informed by the Conversational Model, Attachment and Interpersonal Theories and Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapies, which are briefly described. It provides clinicians with a way of working with patients whose difficulties do not warrant long term therapy, who prefer a talking therapy or who have failed cognitive/behaviour therapies. With the help of examples, it guides the process of assessment and therapy with trauma in mind: using Conversational Model techniques where empathy replaces confrontation; resistance is seen as a fear of re-traumatization; defence mechanisms are regarded as adaptive coping mechanisms which later become maladaptive; transference interventions replace interpretations, and self-reflective capacity is encouraged rather than just insight. Separation anxiety is addressed and anxiety-provoking techniques are avoided, given that anxiety is a large part of most presentations.

Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Author: Peter E. Sifneos
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2013-11-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1489908439

xii the evaluations, techniques, and outcome have helped to document the efficacy of their therapeutic modalities. In addition, many good books and articles have been published introducing new concepts, such as the importance of systematic case studies and personality styles by Horowitz, a variety of brief therapies by Budman, and an integrating model of time-limited psychotherapy by Strupp, to men tion only a few. The investigation of the efficacy of short-term anxiety-provoking psychotherapy (STAPP), which is the subject of this book, has con tinued during the last eight years, particularly in reference to pa tients with unresolved Oedipal conflicts. The chapter on outcome has therefore been expanded to include some of our findings. Cautious attempts have also been made to utilize focal and in novating techniques for the treatment of individuals with borderline as well as compulsive personalities. In this second edition an effort has been made to present the specific technical factors which seem to have a therapeutic effect, such as problem solving, self-understanding, and new learning, and which are utilized by the patients to solve new emotional conflicts long after the end of their treatment. Chapters on the treatment of elderly patients and the handling of individuals with physical symptomatology have been added; a history of the extensive treatment of a male patient has been pre sented to complement the discussion of the therapy of my female patient which appears in Appendix I.

Brief Therapy

Brief Therapy
Author: Jeffrey K. Zeig
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2013-05-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134850786

A tapestry of rich and varied perspectives drawn from a remarkable event. The Brief Therapy Congress, sponsored by the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, brought together over 2200 therapists and an impressive faculty that included J. Barber, J. Bergman, S. Budman, G. Cecchin, N. Cummings, S. de Shazer, A. Ellis, M. Goulding, J. Gustafson, J. Haley, C. Lankton, S. Lankton, A. Lazarus, C. Madanes, W. O'Hanlon, P. Papp, E. Polster, E. Rossi, P. Sifneos, H. Strupp, P. Watzlawick, J. Weakland, M. Yapko and many more.

Handbook Of Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy

Handbook Of Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy
Author: Paul Crits-christ
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1991-11-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Contributors describe ten different approaches. A final chapter summarizes and compares. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Short-Term Psychotherapy and Brief Treatment Techniques

Short-Term Psychotherapy and Brief Treatment Techniques
Author: Harvey P. Mandel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 702
Release: 2013-11-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1468439111

The Scope of Brief Therapy Within the last two decades there has been a dramatic expansion in the uses of short-term treatment (Grayson, 1979, Small, 1979). Brief therapies have been and continue to be widely used with a number of different patient popu lations in a broad variety of service settings. They have been reported in use with children, adolescents, adults~ and the aged; in groups, families, and individual treatment; on college campuses, high schools, in community mental health centers, in child guidance clinics, in private psychiatric clinics, in hospitals as part of out-patient or in-patient therapy, in programs of preventive community mental health; with the rich, the middle class, and the poor (Barten, 1971, 1972; Caplan, 1961, 1964; Small, 1979; Wolberg, 1965). Further, short term methods of therapy range across all of the major and well-known theoretical orientations found in the broader field of psychotherapy. There are some unique theoretical contributions which can be found within this field as well.

Psychotherapy in Later Life

Psychotherapy in Later Life
Author: Rajesh R. Tampi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2020-01-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1108701892

A practical, how-to-guide on choosing and delivering evidence-based psychological therapies to adults in later life. This book provides the latest, peer reviewed evidence for using psychotherapy among older adults, and will appeal to a wide range of readers including patients, caregivers, trainees and clinicians.

Time-Limited Psychotherapy

Time-Limited Psychotherapy
Author: James MANN
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0674040538

Waiting lists in psychiatric clinics and increasing numbers of patients in long-term psychotherapy have highlighted the need for shorter methods of treatment. Existing forms of short-term psychotherapy tend to be vague and uncertain, lacking as they do a clearly formulated rationale and methodology. The bold and challenging technique for brief psychotherapy designed around the factor of time itself, which Dr. Mann introduces here, is a method he hopes will revolutionize current practice. The significance of time in human life is examined in terms of the development of time sense as well as its unconscious meaning and the ways these are experienced in both the categorical and existential senses. The author shows how the interplay between the regressive pressures of the child's sense of infinite time and the adult reality of categorical time determine the patient's unconscious expectations of psychotherapy.

Social Anxiety Disorder

Social Anxiety Disorder
Author: National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781909726031

Social anxiety disorder is persistent fear of (or anxiety about) one or more social situations that is out of proportion to the actual threat posed by the situation and can be severely detrimental to quality of life. Only a minority of people with social anxiety disorder receive help. Effective treatments do exist and this book aims to increase identification and assessment to encourage more people to access interventions. Covers adults, children and young people and compares the effects of pharmacological and psychological interventions. Commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). The CD-ROM contains all of the evidence on which the recommendations are based, presented as profile tables (that analyse quality of data) and forest plots (plus, info on using/interpreting forest plots). This material is not available in print anywhere else.