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This acclaimed work provides a systematic, comprehensive, and balanced evaluation of the current status of all major psychotherapeutic approaches. With a primary focus on adults, detailed evidence is presented for the efficacy of widely used interventions for frequently encountered mental disorders and specific populations. The book also explains the concepts that underpin psychotherapy research, examines methodological challenges in translating research into practice, and considers the impact on outcome of factors common to all therapies, such as therapist and patient characteristics.

What Works for Whom?: A Critical Review of Psychotherapy Research

Introduction1. Defining the Psychotherapies2. Research and Practice: Methodological Considerations and Their Influence on This Review3. Psychotherapy Research, Health Policy, and Service Provision, Glenys Parry, Anthony Roth,and Peter Fonagy 4. Depression5. Bipolar Disorder6. Anxiety Disorders I: Specific Phobia, Social Phobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Panic Disorder with and without Agoraphobia7. Anxiety Disorders II: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder8. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder9. Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge-Eating Disorder10. Schizophrenia11. Personality Disorders12. Substance Abuse: Alcohol, Cocaine, and Opiate Dependence and Abuse13. Sexual Dysfunctions14. The Psychological Treatment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders, Mary Target and Peter Fonagy15. Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions with Older People, Robert Woods and Anthony Roth16. The Contributions of Therapists and Patients to Outcome17. Conclusions and ImplicationsAppendix I. Converting Effect Sizes to PercentilesAppendix II. An Illustration of Commonly Used ""Clinically Intuitive"" Ways of Representing the Outcome of TrialsAppendix III. Contrast between Prevalence Rates from Different Epidemiological Surveys