Nicholas A. Cummings eBooks

Understanding the Behavioral Healthcare Crisis is a necessary book, edited and contributed to by a great variety of authors from academia, government, and industry. The book takes a bold look at what reforms >>

After a period of economic success and high regard in society, clinical psychology has fallen onto hard times, assert authors Nicholas Cummings and William O'Donohue. In the 1960s, clinical psychologists >>

Face to face psychotherapy is useful, but expensive, in terms of direct professional fees and associated administrative costs. Moreover, conventional face-to-face therapy also has significant indirect >>

The best health practices are a synthesis of science and art. Surgery is a case in point. Although all competent surgeons follow scientific protocols, the best surgeons are masters of the art of surgery >>

Healthcare is now practiced in a different financial and delivery system than it was two decades ago. Currently managed care defines what is treated, how, by whom and for what reimbursement. Mental health >>

"The Essence of Psychotherapy" traces the common thread in all psychotherapy approaches - behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, strategic, and humanistic - and defines this "essence" as a set of fundamental >>