While we know that psychotherapy works, there is hearty debate about what makes it work. In the past, rival arguments have maintained that psychotherapy proves effective because of the treatment approach, patient contributions, or the therapeutic relationship. Psychotherapy Skills and Methods That Work argues that clinical skills and methods also play a crucial role and that what therapists do has major consequences for improving practice.

Psychotherapy Skills and Methods That Work is the result of a multiyear, interorganizational Task Force commissioned to identify, compile, and disseminate the research evidence and clinical practices on psychotherapist skills and methods used across theoretical orientations. Edited by renowned scholars Clara E. Hill and John C. Norcross, this book provides original research reviews on the effectiveness of 27 specific psychotherapy skills and methods, including affirmation, self-disclosure, role induction, between-session homework, empathic reflections, mindfulness and acceptance, emotion regulation, and cognitive restructuring. Each chapter on a therapy skill or method features clinical examples, diversity considerations, training implications, and bulleted therapeutic practices, while the final chapter summarizes the research evidence for the effectiveness of these skills/methods and emphasizes implications for clinical training and practice.

Forcefully demonstrating what therapists do to help clients change and live more effective lives, Psychotherapy Skills and Methods That Work will serve as a go-to guide for psychotherapy practitioners of all persuasions and professions, as well as graduate students and psychotherapy researchers.

Clara E. Hill, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland and former president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research and the Society of the Advancement of Psychotherapy/APA Division 29. She was Editor of Journal of Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy Research. Hill has been awarded the Leona Tyler Award and Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award (Society of Counseling Psychology), the Distinguished Psychologist Award (Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy), and the Distinguished Research Career Award (Society for Psychotherapy Research). Her research interests include therapist skills, psychotherapy process/outcome, training and supervision, dream work, meaning in life, and qualitative research.

John C. Norcross, PhD, ABPP, is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychology at the University of Scranton, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University, and a board-certified clinical psychologist. He has cowritten or edited 20 books, including Psychotherapy Relationships That Work, Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice in Behavioral Health and Addictions, Psychologists' Desk Reference, the Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical & Counseling Psychology, and Systems of Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Analysis, now in its 9th edition. He has served as president of the American Psychological Association (APA) Division of Clinical Psychology, the APA Division of Psychotherapy, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, and on the Board of Directors of the National Register of Health Service Psychologists.

Preface
List of Contributors
About the Editors

Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychotherapy Skills and Methods that Work
Clara E. Hill, John C. Norcross, and the Steering Committee

Chapter 2: Affirmation/Validation, Self-Disclosure, Immediacy, and Rupture Repairs
Barry A. Farber, Clara E. Hill, Sarah Knox, Catherine F. Eubanks, J. Christopher Muran, and John C. Norcross

Chapter 3: Questions
Elizabeth Nutt Williams

Chapter 4: Socratic Questioning and Guided Discovery
James C. Overholser and Eleanor Beale

Chapter 5: Empathic Reflection
Robert Elliott, Art Bohart, Dale G. Larson, Peter Muntigl, and Olga Smoliak

Chapter 6: Metaphors
Linda M. McMullen & Dennis Tay

Chapter 7: Interpretations
Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Hadar Fisher, Tohar Dolev-Amit, John R. Keefe, and Jacques P. Barber

Chapter 8: Paradoxical Interventions
Paul R. Peluso and Robert Freund

Chapter 9: Advice, Suggestions, Recommendations
Clara E. Hill, Sarah Knox, and Changming Duan

Chapter 10: Integrating Between-Session Homework
Truls Ryum, Mia Bennion, and Nikolaos Kazantzis

Chapter 11: Silence
Heidi M. Levitt and Zenobia Morrill

Chapter 12: Facilitating Dyadic Synchrony
Dana Atzil Slonim, Christina S. Soma, Xinyao Zhang, Adar Paz, and Zac E. Imel

Chapter 13: Role Induction
Joshua K. Swift, Elizabeth A. Penix, and Ailun Li

Chapter 14: Collaborative Assessment Methods
Filippo Aschieri, Arnold A. P. van Emmerik, Carlijn Wibbelink, and Jan H. Kamphuis

Chapter 15: Routine Outcome Monitoring
Michael Barkham, Kim de Jong, Jaime Delgadillo, and Wolfgang Lutz

Chapter 16: Strength-Based Methods
Christoph Flückiger, Thomas Munder, A. C. Del Re, and Nili Solomonov

Chapter 17: Enhancing Emotion Regulation
Shigeru Iwakabe, Kaori Nakamura, and Nathan C. Thoma

Chapter 18: Chairwork
Antonio Pascual-Leone and Tabarak Baher

Chapter 19: Dream Work and Nightmare Treatments
Patricia T. Spangler and Wonjin Sim

Chapter 20: Mediation, Mindfulness, and Acceptance
Simon B. Goldberg, Christopher Anders, Shannon L. Stuart-Maver, and D. Martin Kivlighan III

Chapter 21: Facilitating Behavioral Activation
Pim Cuijpers, Eirini Karyotaki, Mathias Harrer, and Yvonne Stikkelbroek

Chapter 22: Cognitive Restructuring
Iony D. Ezawa and Steven D. Hollon

Chapter 23: Skills and Methods That Work in Psychotherapy: Research Results, Training Implications, Therapeutic Practices, and Task Force Conclusions
Clara E. Hill, John C. Norcross, and the Steering Committee

Index