Simulation in Human Systems: Decision-Making in Psychotherapy (Publications in Operations Research)

205 pp. CONTENTS: Prologue; 1. Aims and Objectives; 2. Psychotherapy, an Adaptive Decision Process; 3. The Initial Interview; 4. The Behavior of Systems; 5. Decision Processes; 6. Mathematical Model of the Initial Interview; 7. Computers and Simulation; 8. A Computer Simulation of the Initial Psychotherapy Interview; 9. Computer Vignettes; 10. Teaching, Training, and Research; Author Index; Subject Index.