Cognitive and Constructive Psychotherapies Theory, Research and Practice [Paperback]

?the entire field of psychological services is moving through a developmental transformation of significant proportions?open dialogue regarding its diversity is likely to be one of its saving graces in the centuries to come.
- From the Editor's Conclusion

Updated and expanded from the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Dr. Mahoney has assembled an impressive group of top psychologists to focus on current developments in cognitive and constructive psychotherapies. The volume traces the evolution of cognitive therapy from its origin in behavior modification through its development and maturation as an integrative system of therapy.

Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction

1. Theoretical Developments in the Cognitive and Constructive Psychotherapies,Michael J. Mahoney
2. Changing Conceptions of Cognitive Behavior Modification: Retrospect and Prospect,Donald Meichenbaum

Part II: Cognitive Therapy

3. Cognitive Therapy: Past, Present, and Future,Aaron T. Beck
4. An Appraisal of Cognitive Therapy,Clive J. Robins and Adele M. Hayes

Part III: Rational-Emotive Therapy

5. Reflections on Rational-Emotive Therapy,Albert Ellis
6. An Appraisal of Rational-Emotive Therapy,David A. F. Haaga and Gerald C. Davison

Part IV: The Constructive Psychotherapies

7. A Constructivist Outline of Human Knowing Processes,Vittorio F. Guidano
8. Constructive Metatheory and the Nature of Mental Representation,Michael J. Mahoney, H. Martin Miller, and Giampiero Arciero
9. Personal Construct Therapy and the Relation Between Cognition and Affect,Kenneth W. Sewell
10. Cognitive Narrative Psychotherapy: The Hermeneutic Construction of Alternative Meanings,Oscar F. Goncalves
11. An Appraisal of Constructivist Psychotherapies: Contexts and Challenges,Robert A. Neimeyer