Main description:

This volume describes in detail what disciplined personal involvement is and how it is administered. It empirically challenges one of the oldest prohibitions in the field of psychotherapy: the personal involvement taboo. The book was written during a current four-year national clinical trial sponsored by NIMH involving 910 chronically depressed outpatients being treated at eight sites in the U.S.

Contents:

Preface

Foreword

Chapter 1: Disciplined Personal Involvement

Chapter 2: The History of the Personal Involvement Taboo

Chapter 3: Treating the Chronically Depressed Patient

Chapter 4: Disciplined Personal Involvement Training

Chapter 5: Creating Contingent Environments Using Disciplined Person Involvement

Chapter 6: Healing Interpersonal Trauma Using the Interpersonal Discrimination Exercise

Appendix: Research Investigations to Determine "How" CBASP Works

References

Index