This provocative volume updates L' Abate's signature ideas, focusing in
particular on the concepts of concreteness and specificity as basic
tenets of evaluation and therapy. Noting society's growing familiarity
with technology, current concerns about treatment accessibility, and
widespread interest in wellness promotion, he argues for remote-writing
exercises targeted to specific client issues and monitored by the
clinician instead of relying on traditional talk-based therapy. This
attention to concreteness and specificity in baseline evaluation,
post-treatment evaluation, and follow-up, the author asserts, is central
to making treatment replicable, less subject to impasses or missteps,
and more professional, with the potential of changing how therapy is
conducted as well as how clinicians are trained and practice. The book's
framework includes rationales, models, empirical data, and examples of
prescriptive remote-writing exercises.
Featured in the coverage:
- Online interventions: here to stay and to grow.
- Verifiability in clinical psychology practices.
- Present status and future perspectives for personality and family
assessment.
- Practice without theory/combining theory with practice.
- Toward a unifying framework of human relationships
- PIPES: Programmed Interactive Practice Exercise and Prescriptions.
Concreteness and Specificity in Clinical Psychology will bring a new
level of discussion and debate among clinical psychology practitioners
and practicing psychotherapists in private practice and the public
sector.
