Problem Solving Therapy in the Clinical Practice

循证或经验所支持的心理治疗在精神卫生领域发挥着越来越重要的作用，因为心理治疗的使用者和付款者希望选择疗效得到经验性证明的治疗方法。目前的经验支持认知-行为心理治疗可用于众多心理学/精神病学问题。作为认知-行为作用方式之一，问题解决治疗已被证明在抑郁、焦虑、自杀、精神分裂、人格障碍、婚姻问题、癌症、糖尿病等患者的治疗和康复中是一种有效的心理治疗方式。
精神卫生问题导致个人痛苦并对造成国家卫生系统的负担。科学证据表明有效的问题解决技巧是恢复的重要资源，精神异常个体在有效的问题求解技巧方面存在缺陷。在情感问题的治疗/康复中，问题解决治疗的方法假定以治疗性关系教授患者有效的问题解决技巧可促进恢复并减轻的心理问题。本书的开头章节提供了问题解决的相关信息以及问题解决在不同形式的精神卫生问题的发病机制和治疗中的地位。本书的结尾章节则聚焦心理治疗、问题解决治疗的评估和操作。本书最终以个案研究收篇。

Evidence based or empirically supported psychotherapies are becoming more and more important in the mental health fields as the users and financers of psychotherapies want to choose those methods whose effectiveness are empirically shown. Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapies are shown to have empirical support in the treatment of a wide range of psychological/psychiatric problems. As a cognitive-behavioral mode of action, Problem Solving Therapy has been shown to be an effective psychotherapy approach in the treatment and/or rehabilitation of persons with depression, anxiety, suicide, schizophrenia, personality disorders, marital problems, cancer, diabetes-mellitus etc.
Mental health problems cause personal suffering and constitue a burden to the national health systems. Scientific evidence show that effective problem solving skills are an important source of resiliency and individuals with psychological problems exhibit a deficiency in effective problem solving skills. Problem solving therapy approach to the treatment and/or rehabilitation of emotional problems assumes that teaching effective problem solving skills in a therapeutic relationship increases resiliency and alleviates psychological problems.The book, in the first chapters, gives information on problem solving and the role of problem-solving in the etiology and the treatment of different forms of mental health problems. In the later chapters, it concentrates on psychotherapy, assessment and procedures of problem solving therapy. At the end it provides a case study.