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In Prescriptive Eclectic Therapy, Dr. John C. Norcross demonstrates this adaptable, client-focused approach to psychotherapy. This approach tailors the therapy on the basis of each client's unique needs and situation by drawing on the most effective and applicable techniques from eclectic theoretical camps. In this session, Dr. Norcross works with a 33-year-old man whose substance use and marital infidelity have resulted in problems with his relationships and career. This video features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of actual case material. Read about precipitating events and preceding sessions
In this type of psychotherapy, the clinician attempts to customize psychological treatments and therapeutic relationships to the specific needs of individual patients. This is done by drawing on effective methods from across theoretical camps (eclecticism) and by matching those methods to particular cases on the basis of empirically supported guidelines (prescriptionism). The end result of prescriptive matching is a more efficient, applicable, and efficacious therapy that fits both the client and the clinician.
John C. Norcross, PhD, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Rhode Island and completed his internship at the Brown University School of Medicine. He is professor and former chair of psychology at the University of Scranton, a clinical psychologist in part-time independent practice, and an authority on psychotherapy integration and prescriptive treatments. Author of more than 100 scholarly articles, Dr. Norcross has written or edited 10 books, including the third edition of Systems of Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Analysis (with J. O. Prochaska) and An Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical Psychology (with Mayne and Sayette).
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