The Patient as the Center: Integrating Psychodynamic Approaches with Other Mental Health Treatments

This practical guide provides counselors with the integration of psychoanalytic and behavioral therapies to offer healing benefits to clients, especially those limited by insurance, financial restrictions, or agency policies. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing the complexity of mental illness, providing open access to treatment, adequate funding, long-term facilities, consistent retrofitting of treatments, and duration and frequency determined by patient-therapist arrangement. This resource is particularly useful for clinicians in training or early in their careers and for seasoned clinicians seeking alternative approaches.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 198 pages
Publication date: 01 December 2023
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

The healing benefits of psychodynamic "talk therapy" can be made available to any client, regardless of insurance, financial restrictions, or agency policies, thanks to this practical guide. The current mental health system, driven by economic expediency rather than treatment quality, leads to a revolving door of treatment that leaves society vulnerable to the impact of mental illness. To address this, Integrating Psychodynamic Approaches with Other Mental Health Treatments: The Patient as the Center proposes the integration of psychoanalytic and behavioral therapies and practices that are consistently evaluated for effectiveness and tailored to each patient's needs. These include recognizing the complexity of mental illness, the potential need for intervention throughout the life cycle, open access to treatment, adequate funding, long-term facilities, consistent retrofitting of treatments, and duration and frequency determined by patient-therapist arrangement. This resource is particularly valuable for clinicians in training or early in their careers who are navigating treatment approaches, as well as for seasoned clinicians seeking alternative approaches amidst bureaucratic obstacles that hinder best treatment practices.

The current mental health system, driven by economic expediency rather than treatment quality, leads to a revolving door of treatment that leaves society vulnerable to the impact of mental illness.

To address this, Integrating Psychodynamic Approaches with Other Mental Health Treatments: The Patient as the Center proposes the integration of psychoanalytic and behavioral therapies and practices that are consistently evaluated for effectiveness and tailored to each patient's needs.

These include recognizing the complexity of mental illness, the potential need for intervention throughout the life cycle, open access to treatment, adequate funding, long-term facilities, consistent retrofitting of treatments, and duration and frequency determined by patient-therapist arrangement.

This resource is particularly valuable for clinicians in training or early in their careers who are navigating treatment approaches, as well as for seasoned clinicians seeking alternative approaches amidst bureaucratic obstacles that hinder best treatment practices.

Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538163276