@book {605941,
	title = {Doing Psychotherapy Effectively},
	year = {1998},
	publisher = {Chicago University Press},
	organization = {Chicago University Press},
	abstract = {Psychotherapy is a $2.5 billion business in the United States, but no one can answer the basic question of how therapy works. No watchdog groups rank therapists for potential consumers; no one school of thought has proven to be superior to another. And no method has emerged for determining what makes therapy successful for some but not for others.\&nbsp;Doing Psychotherapy Effectively\&nbsp;proposes much-needed answers to the puzzling questions of what therapists actually do when they are effective.\&nbsp;Mona Sue Weissmark and Daniel A. Giacomo offer a unique mode of evaluation that focuses not on a particular school of therapy but on the relationship between therapist and patient. Their approach, the\&nbsp;"Harvard Psychotherapy Coding Method,"\&nbsp;begins with the assumption that good therapeutic relationships are far from intuitive. Successful relationships follow a pattern of behaviors that can be identified and quantified, as the authors demonstrate through clinical research and videotaped sessions of\&nbsp;expert therapists. Likewise, positive changes in the patient,\&nbsp;observed through client feedback and case studies, can be described operationally; they involve the process of overcoming feelings of detachment, helplessness, and rigidity and becoming more involved, effective, and adaptable.\&nbsp;Weissmark and Giacomo explain and ground these principles in the practice of psychotherapy, making\&nbsp;Doing Psychotherapy Effectively\&nbsp;an accessible and pragmatic work which will give readers a tool for measuring therapeutic effectiveness and further understanding human transformation. For the first time, successful therapy is described in a way that can be practiced and communicated.},
	author = {Mona Sue Weissmark}
}
