Thomas Skovholt and Len Jennings' landmark Master Therapists: Exploring Expertise in Therapy and Counseling was the first book to apply qualitative methodology to the study of validly selected expert therapists. Considering the growing number of international qualitative studies on psychotherapy expertise, the authors join forces once again to provide students, academics, researchers, and practitioners with Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Master Therapist Studies from Around the World. In this book, Jennings and Skovholt compile and compare, for the first time, a series of parallel studies of expertise in psychotherapy from around the world. The studies include therapist expertise research projects in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Japan, and Korea), North America (the U.S.A. and Canada), and Europe (Czech Republic and Portugal). Synthesizing and presenting common characteristics of master practitioners on a global scale, Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy is the most comprehensive description of psychotherapy expertise at the international level that has ever been conducted.

Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Master Therapist Studies from Around the World

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Skovholt, Thomas M.

Jennings, Len

Psychology & Counseling

Oxford University Press

<p>  In this book the authors paint an elaborate portrait of expert or 'master' therapists. The book contains extensive qualitative research conducted over a seven-year period on the same ten master therapists. This intensive research project on master therapists, those considered the 'best of the best' by their colleagues, will appeal to mental health providers, counselor/therapist training programs, and researchers seeking to understand more fully optimal therapist development.  Research on experienced, let alone expert, therapists and counselors is extremely rare. There are just a handful of studies utilizing therapists at this high level of professional development. Rarer still in the counseling and psychotherapy research literature is the depth of the focus resulting from the multiple and longitudinal studies reflected in this book. Such a rich description of expert therapists and counselors can help inform mental health practitioners, as well as therapist training programs, of the ways of masters—therapists considered to be operating at the highest level of the profession— and be used as potential guidelines for their own professional development.  Mental health providers, counselor/therapist training programs, and researchers. </p>

Master Therapists: Exploring Expertise in Therapy and Counseling

Allyn&Bacon

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