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Brief Supportive Psychotherapy - A Treatment Manual and Clinical Approach (Paperback)
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Brief Supportive Psychotherapy - A Treatment Manual and Clinical Approach (Paperback)
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Supportive psychotherapy is widely practiced but poorly defined,
often misunderstood, and unfairly disparaged. Dr. Markowitz and his
colleagues manualized Brief Supportive Psychotherapy (BSP) as a
time-limited control treatment to compare to "more active"
established psychotherapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) in research studies. In fact,
BSP, an emotion-focused, bare-bones treatment based on Carl Rogers'
Client Centered Therapy, has since proven itself to be a robust
treatment in multiple randomized controlled treatment trials. It
has generally kept pace with the brand name treatments in treating
patients with difficult disorders like chronic depression. Some
therapists, previously trained only in cognitive and behavioral
approaches, have found this affect-focused approach adds a new
dimension to their thinking and to patients' lives. Brief
Supportive Psychotherapy: A Treatment Manual and Clinical Approach
is both an elaboration of the now well-tested research treatment
manual for BSP and a primer for clinicians. It illustrates how BSP
helps patients with mood and anxiety disorders to tolerate rather
than avoid their powerful negative emotions. It describes the key
elements of supportive psychotherapy, covering the crucial "common
factors" that help make all evidence-based psychotherapies
effective. These include affective arousal, helping the patient to
feel understood, realistic optimism for improvement, a therapeutic
ritual, clinical poise, and success experiences. BSP maximizes
patient autonomy, letting the patient lead sessions, and prescribes
no homework. It is an elemental, relatively simple approach for a
psychotherapy, yet no psychotherapy is easy to do well. Its
affect-focused approach enhances the application of all
psychotherapeutic approaches. It deserves a place among
evidence-based treatments in depression treatment guidelines.
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