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Eleven Blunders that Cripple Psychotherapy in America - A Remedial Unblundering (Hardcover)
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Eleven Blunders that Cripple Psychotherapy in America - A Remedial Unblundering (Hardcover)
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After a period of economic success and high regard in society,
clinical psychology has fallen onto hard times, assert authors
Nicholas Cummings and William O'Donohue. In the 1960s, clinical
psychologists with doctorates were well paid in relation to
comparable professions; today, starting salaries are lower than
many jobs that require only a bachelor's degree. Clinical
psychology in the 1960s was preferred and valued over other fields
as a profession; today it is not even on the list of top 20 fields
for graduates to enter. Psychologists' opinions on social issues
are disregarded by the public. What was and continues to be the
reason for the decline and continuing descent of clinical
psychology? The authors posit that the profession blundered and has
not adapted to the profound changes that have taken place in
American society over the past 40 years. Psychotherapy practice is
based on a 50-minute hour, yet mental health treatment must operate
at a much briefer, more efficient pace. Clinicians ignore the
findings of scientific research for effective treatments and favor
the overblown pronouncements of gurus who preach without substance.
Clinicians failed to adapt their practice to the needs of the
healthcare industry and do not recognize that psychotherapy is
health profession. An anti-business bias has contributed to
training programs that ignore the economic realities of running a
practice. The failure to secure prescription privileges, the
invention of diagnoses, and political correctness are among the
other blunders that pull the profession away from its primary
mission -- mental health treatment -- and contribute to the low
esteem in which psychologists are held. The authors enumerate and
discuss the Eleven Blunders That Cripple Psychotherapy in America
and offer remedies to correct the ongoing decline of the field.
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