This book demonstrates how clinical psychology and psychotherapy practices may reach a scientific level provided they change the three basic paradigms that have controlled those practices in the last century. These three, now outdated, paradigms, are: (1) one-on-one (2) personal contacts (3) through talk. These paradigms have served well in the past but they are no less helpful in the current digitally focused world.
Table of Content
Historical Introduction to Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.- Toward a Science of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice.- The Cults of Psychotherapy.- Beyond Reliability and Validity: Toward Specificity in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.- Stepped Care Research in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.- Concreteness: Seven Psychological Orphans in Search of a Theory-Toward a Neo-behaviorist View.- Epilogue and Conclusions: Toward a Hierarchical Personnel Structure in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.