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This article provides a context for and highlights the clinical and research developments over the past year about the therapeutic relationship, with a primary focus on the individual adult psychotherapy literature in the areas of the alliance, transference, and attachment.Areas for future research are suggested.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1997

数据来源: OVID

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The group literature over the past year is predominantly descriptive in nature with relatively few empirical studies.It continues to lag behind the individual psychotherapy literature on process-outcome studies and there has been little attention to adapting current specific individual psychotherapy models to the group context. Nonetheless, promising new group applications are being reported and the use of groups is increasing.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1997

数据来源: OVID

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Clinical reports and empirical studies published in the past 12 months are beginning to validate the effectiveness of different types of psychotherapy for substance abuse treatment.New theoretical models and practice techniques are being applied and evaluated. Individual, group, and family therapy with some patient groups show initial and lasting therapeutic effects.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1997

数据来源: OVID

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Recent publications relevant to the contemporary practice of marital therapy are reviewed.One theme emerges as being of central importance for future developments in the field: the need for specificity for defining the patient, focus and efficacy of the work. Although research findings were generally supportive of the efficacy of a wide range of marital interventions, present research limitations underlined the need for improved methodologies. Recommendations made in the literature are noted.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1997

数据来源: OVID

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The psychotherapy of sexual deviation and perversion is recognized as a difficult area with theoretical, clinical, legal and controversial complexities.As a result, most of the current treatment references are, not surprisingly, psychoanalytical. As there is such an overlap with external parameters, broader subsections have been included in this review that cover a spectrum of psychopathology, cultural and international differences, politics and homosexuality.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1997

数据来源: OVID

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Developments in the field of cognitive therapy continue apace.A number of treatm194ent trials comparing the benefits of cognitive therapy to routine care or a waiting list control situation were published. These papers suggested that cognitive therapy can be an efficient and acceptable treatment for patients with neurotic or psychotic disorders.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1997

数据来源: OVID