> I also focus on "common factors" quite a bit in that class, > and wish we had textbooks that laid out material along the > lines Rod is suggesting. Want to write a textbook, Rod?
I've been thinking about it! Corey is a great text. So is Corsini and Wedding. But it would be great to see a text that offered more focus on empirically-validated treatments. Most of these texts that exist are graduate-level texts such as Barlow's Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders, Nathan and Gorman's A Guide to Treatments That Work, and Hersen and Bellack Comparative Interventions for Adult Disorders. There are some good sections in some of the Abnormal texts, but nothing that goes into considerable detail about the psychological treatments. We need an undergraduate-level text that discusses the historical and theoretical aspects of these approaches, but also synthesizes the existing literature on these approaches. Another way to do this, and something I am going to experiment with next Fall, is to use one of the standard texts but then also put together your own list of classic research articles to supplement the readings. The benefit of this approach is that it is another way to help our students learn the language of research. ______________________________________________ Roderick D. Hetzel, Ph.D. Department of Psychology LeTourneau University Post Office Box 7001 2100 South Mobberly Avenue Longview, Texas 75607-7001 Office: Education Center 218 Phone: 903-233-3893 Fax: 903-233-3851 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.letu.edu/people/rodhetzel --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
