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APA Psychotherapy Training Videos are intended solely for educational purposes for mental health professionals. Viewers are expected to treat confidential material found herein according to strict professional guidelines. Unauthorized viewing is prohibited.
In Evidence-Based Treatment, Larry E. Beutler demonstrates his research-directed approach to therapy. Dr. Beutler uses data gathered in a presession assessment to tailor his approach to working with the client. The principles on which this method is based have been proven to make therapy more targeted and therefore more effective. In this session, Dr. Beutler works with a young man suffering with depression who wants to be able to enjoy life again. Dr. Beutler looks for relationship themes and at the client's family systems for insight into the sources of the client's depression and passivity, and helps to increase the client's self-esteem and sense of control over his own life.
Systematic Treatment Selection (STS) is not simply a psychotherapy system. Most directly it is a method of planning and delivering optimal treatments in a way that is consistent with established scientific literature and that cuts across different theoretical approaches. STS is a tracking and treatment system that involves applying contemporary research findings to clinical problems in an integrated and cross-cutting way. It provides the clinician with principles and strategies for addressing a wide range of patient problems, more than with specific techniques or theoretical constructs about the nature of the psychopathology or treatment process. The STS approach seeks to establish an optimal and maximally beneficial fit between patient and problem characteristics, on one hand, and therapist and treatment characteristics, on the other.
Larry E. Beutler, PhD, is the director of the National Center on Disaster Psychology and Terrorism, a research and training program for preparing mental health practitioners to respond to mass trauma. He holds the William McInnes chair and is distinguished professor of psychology at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo Alto, California; consulting professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University; and professor emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He obtained his PhD from the University of Nebraska in 1970, and subsequently served on the faculties of Duke University Medical School, Stephen F. Austin State University, Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Arizona, and the University of California. Dr. Beutler is a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP-clinical), a two-term past international president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), past president of the American Psychological Association's (APA's) Division 12 (Society for Clinical Psychology), and past president of the APA's Division 29 (Psychotherapy). He is a recipient of the Gold Medal Award from the American Psychological Foundation, the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the California Psychological Association, the Distinguished Research Career Award from the SPR, International, and of a Presidential Citation from the president of the APA.
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