Abstract
Volume 2, Part II of this handbook focuses on a fourth primary way in which professionals practice psychotherapy and/or try to affect such practice through theory, research, and training. The information provided complements the three other parts of the handbook that comprehensively cover additional primary, and often nonmutually exclusive, ways in which psychotherapists practice (a) according to a specific theoretical orientation across most patients and contexts (Volume 1, Part I); (b) by using a specific "named" therapy to primarily treat patients suffering from a particular mental illness (Volume 1, Part II); and/or (c) by drawing on varied forms of research to administer psychotherapy in a way that can include, but also transcend, specific theoretical orientations and disorder-specific interventions (Volume 2, Part I). Volume 2, Part III of this handbook concludes with two chapters that respectively discuss ethical considerations and future directions that span the contents of Parts I and II. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)