Description
We believe that this book is important because it presents an integrative multi-level theory called the systems-contextual integrative model (SCIM) that unites personality and contextual influences in an elaboration of Andras Angyal’s (1965) theory of health (healing) and neurosis (trauma) systems principles. Methodologically, our book links this meta-theory of change with the latest innovations in idiographic, process-oriented measurement that will guide practice research network applications. This book will be useful for psychotherapy theorists who aim to develop unified models that will facilitate further research on core processes that will promote outcome effectiveness. Our book will be interesting to practitioners who wish not only to measure outcomes but also to understand and integrate wholistic person-centered personality processes with environmental contexts to promote these healing outcomes. Students studying clinical and counseling psychology will learn a comprehensive, unified overview of current psychotherapy outcomes research and measurement.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Healing Outcomes and a Broader Definition of Change.- Chapter 2: The Theory–Measurement Gap & Why It Matters.- Chapter 3: A Systems-Contextual Integrative Heuristic Model Part 1–Healing & Levels of Change.- Chapter 4: The Systems-Contextual Integrative Heuristic Model Part 2–The Dynamics of the Healing Cycle and the Trauma Cycle.- Chapter 5: Individual Client-Level Differences and Treatment Outcome: Idiographic Assessment of Patterns and Types.- Chapter 6: Healing as a Collaboration: Development, Culture, Ethics, and Client-Defined Success.- Chapter 7: Healing Through Emotion: Emotional Processing, Avoidance, and Measurement.- Chapter 8: Measuring Common Factors: Working Alliance, Client Expectations, and Client Distress.- Chapter 9: Narrative, Language, and Artificial Intelligence in Psychotherapy Research.- Chapter 10: Practice–Research Integration: Practice Research Networks (PRNs) for Translating Evidence-Based Interventions into Healthcare Systems.- Chapter 11: Toward a Unified Dynamic Model: Summary, Future Directions, and Conclusions.
