ISBN Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy ( Master Therapist Studies from Around the World ) 328 pages English

Thomas Skovholt and Len Jennings' landmark Master Therapists: Exploring Expertise in Therapy and Counseling was the first book to apply qualitative methodology to the study of validly selected expert therapists. Considering the growing number of international qualitative studies on psychotherapy expertise the authors join forces once again to provide students academics researchers and practitioners with Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Master Therapist Studies from Around the World. In this book Jennings and Skovholt compile and compare for the first time a series of parallel studies of expertise in psychotherapy from around the world. The studies include therapist expertise research projects in Southeast Asia (Singapore Japan and Korea) North America (the U.S.A. and Canada) and Europe (Czech Republic and Portugal). Synthesizing and presenting common characteristics of master practitioners on a global scale Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy is the most comprehensive description of psychotherapy expertise at the international level that has ever been conducted.