A computerized search of published abstracts in PsychInfo was conducted to obtain the frequency of annual citations since 1984 for six forms of psychotherapy. Cognitive-Behavioral therapies showed the most rapid increase over the past 16 years. Family therapies, in contrast, showed a significant decline in the number of abstract citations since 1990. At present, brief, empirically tested treatments appear to be generating the greatest discussion in the academic and scientific literature.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
FoxP. T. (1997) The growth of human brain mapping. Human Brain Mapping, 5, 1–2.
2.
GarfieldS. L.BerginA. E. (Eds.) (1994) Handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change. (4th ed.) New York: Wiley.
3.
JacobsS. C.HodgeM. A.SledgeW. H.BunneyB. S. (1997) Managed care, health care reform, and academic psychiatry. Academic Psychiatry, 21, 72–85.
4.
OmerH.DarR. (1992) Changing trends in three decades of psychotherapy research: The flight from theory into pragmatics. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 60, 88–93.
5.
ParisJ. (2000) Canadian psychiatry across 5 decades: From clinical inference to evidence-based practice. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 45, 34–39.
