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Prescriptive psychotherapy: alternatives to diagnosis
- Author:
- BEDI Robinder Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Psychotherapy in Independent Practice, 2(2), 2001, pp.39-60.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The purpose of this paper is to introcuce uninformed mental health professionals to traditional prescriptive psychotherapy and to highlight potential client factors which can guide the selection of particiular interventions, relational stances, approaches, and orientations. Although some would be quick to point out that almost all mental health professionals advocate tailoring interventions to fit the client, true prescriptive psychotherapists employ direct empirical evidence in tailoring and do not limit themselves to one or just a few orientations. To aid in this endeavour, the three most prominent and theoretically devloped systems of prescriptive psychotherapy (Multimodal psychotherapy, systematic treatment selection and stage-based psychotherapy), and two particularly useful categories of idiographic factrs (the therapeutic relationship and the client's worldview) are introduced and discussed.