For all those engaged in psychotherapy practice, regardless of modality or approach, the goal of this book is to provide a framework and method for thinking about their work that allows for critical reflection on their own successes and disappointments, and on the similarities and differences among their own and other practitioners’ work with different clients. The authors use a novel "common factors" approach, based on the idea that some form of development is the outcome of all effective psychotherapy, despite other differences that may exist. While most existing psychotherapy research focuses on treatment outcomes, primarily in terms of symptom reduction, this book offers an alternative research approach that systematically tracks the psychotherapy process itself, and describes each case’s unique developmental outcome. In particular, Basseches & Mascolo focus on the questions of what kinds of therapeutic resources therapists are offering to their clients and whether and how clients are able to make use of these resources in the service of their own development. The goal is to provide a descriptive framework that can be used to appreciate the highly varied ways in which particular therapists tailor their work to unique clients’ developmental needs, while at the same time offering a prescription of a more rigorous method for recognizing and correcting the problem when a particular therapist’s way of working is not serving the client well. Ideally, this type of process-focused research will complement existing outcome research, and be more likely than further symptom-reduction studies to result in the improvement of overall psychotherapy success rates. Contents......Page 8 List of Tables......Page 14 List of Figures......Page 16 Acknowledgments......Page 18 PART 1: Introduction......Page 24 CHAPTER 1. Psychotherapy and Development: Goals of This Book......Page 26 PART II: Conceptual Foundations......Page 34 CHAPTER 2. The Concept of Development and Its Implications for Psychotherapy......Page 36 CHAPTER 3. A Coactive Systems Model of Psychotherapy and Development......Page 50 CHAPTER 4. How Psychotherapy Fosters Development......Page 78 CHAPTER 5. Multiple Traditions, Multiple Paths: How Different Therapeutic Approaches Foster Development......Page 96 PART III: Method......Page 136 CHAPTER 6. The Developmental Analysis of Psychotherapy Process (DAPP) Method......Page 138 PART IV: Case Analyses......Page 174 CHAPTER 7. From Isolation to Intimacy: The Transformation of Eva's Communicative Repertoire......Page 176 CHAPTER 8. The Lady Cloaked in Fog: Development a Construction of the Therapist as a "Harbor Light"......Page 228 CHAPTER 9. Tracking the Role of Emotion in Psychotherapy: Case Illustrations......Page 274 PART V : Implications......Page 304 CHAPTER 10. Psychotherapy as a Developmental Process: Implications and Future Directions for Psychotherapy Research, Practice, and Training......Page 306 References......Page 336 Index......Page 358
