States and Processes for Mental Health

Advancing Psychotherapy Effectiveness

Brad Bowins
Elsevier S&T
282 pages
ISBN: 978-0323850490
March 2021

This book presents a novel mechanism of action for psychotherapy, revealing how psychotherapy actually works by advancing key states and processes characterizing mental health. This new understanding is presented in three sections. The first identifies 7 states and processes for mental health. The second examines 15 major forms of psychotherapy and non-specific factors with a comprehensive overview of each. In the third section, the author explores conceptual and practical problems in the current approach to psychotherapy, whereby discrete forms of psychotherapy are oriented to remedying psychopathology.