Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4338-2726-6
Verlag: American Psychological Association

Sonstiges, Englisch, 0 Seiten, DVD video, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Systems of Psychotherapy Video Series

Interpersonal reconstructive therapy incorporates aspects of biological and psychoanalytic attachment theories into a case formulation model that explains symptoms in relation to client views of safety and threat.

Therapy follows a set series of steps, and the therapist chooses treatment and specific interventions on the basis of the case formulation and at what point in the therapeutic process the client may be. The client's sense of safety is a central concern, as this core mental schema will change as a result of the therapy process.

In this program, Dr. Lorna Smith Benjamin works with a 19-year-old single woman with severe anxiety who was hospitalized after attempting suicide. Dr. Smith-Benjamin works to understand the worldview of the client and help her begin to move from feeling hopeless and unseen toward a sense of agency.

The client in this video is portrayed by an actor on the basis of a composite of case descriptions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benjamin, Lorna Smith

Über Autor(innen)

Lorna Smith Benjamin, PhD, received her doctorate in psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1960. Her primary advisor was Harry F. Harlow. After 4 years of internship and postdoctoral clinical training in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, she became a faculty member in the department. For the next 18 years, she taught and supervised psychology interns and psychiatry residents while maintaining a full-time private practice. In 1987, she moved to the University of Utah at Salt Lake City where she began a different kind of academic career, one that emphasized research in psychopathology and psychotherapy. It was here that she developed her interpersonal model of personality and personality assessment, the structural analysis of social behavior (SASB). The model is also useful in choosing and tracking therapeutic interventions. Dr. Benjamin received an honorary degree from the University of Umea in Sweden for her work with the SASB. She has lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad, and is currently Emeritus Professor at University of Utah, Department of Psychology, and Adjunct Professor at University of Utah, Department of Psychiatry. In addition to her academic positions, she currently has an active consulting practice with the University of Utah Hospital, supervises and trains therapists, and maintains a private practice. She is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and books.