Dongmei Yue

Beitman and Yue expand upon their widely adopted training program in interpersonal psychotherapy. New modules are added covering the critical topics of listening on the part of the therapist and the termination of therapy. Homework and exercises aid both teachers and students in mastering this type of health-care delivery. This A Seminar Leader's Manual provides guidelines for instructors.

The seminar leader is the conduit of basic psychotherapeutic knowledge. The Learning Psychotherapy Seminar Leader's Manual helps instructors introduce beginners to the concepts and processes that define psychotherapy. With the help of the main text and the Learning Psychotherapy Vignettes videotape, seminar leaders show trainees not only the diversity of useful ideas from psychotherapeutic schools but also those variations that fit their own personalities. The program is well-structured but flexible as seminar leaders are encouraged to adapt them to individual training situations-bring in your own cases and encourage trainees to regularly bring in their current clinical problems. Make psychotherapeutic learning come alive by using the modules as the jumping off point!

Each training program finds its own, sometimes idiosyncratic, niche and is not called to the task of demonstrating effectiveness. Those programs that offer structured training in key approaches tend not to present models that integrate the various schools. This book, along with the accompanying Seminar Leader's Manual and Learning Psychotherapy Vignettes videotape, provides a much-needed foundation for training beginning psychotherapists in the crucial elements of psychotherapy. Unlike other programs, it is low on reading volume and high on homework. The homework includes rating transcripts according to standard research scales, discerning dysfunctional patterns from written and videotaped case vignettes, and analyzing transference and countertransference in actual sessions. Participants proceed through six modules: (1) verbal response modes and intentions, (2) working alliance, (3) inducing patterns, (4) change, (5) resistance, and (6) transference and countertransference. Pre- and post-training modules offer the opportunity to measure the effects of training. The Learning Psychotherapy program has been endorsed by the American Psychiatric Association as "an example of innovative training in the fundamentals of psychotherapy, with built-in assessment that is consistent with the objectives of the Commission on Psychotherapy by Psychiatrists and the APA to strengthen the psychotherapy education of future psychiatrists." The program has been piloted in the psychiatric residency training program at the University of Missouri-Columbia for four years, at Stanford University for two years, and at several other sites across the United States.