Simon H Budman

Biographic Data

ID4491485
NAMESimon H Budman
GIVEN NAMESSimon H
FAMILY NAMEBudman
SIGNATUREBUDMAN S H
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
H-INDEX0

  • Behavioral health care dot-com and beyond

    Simon H BudmanARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2000

    Computer-mediated communications (CMC) such as e-mail, websites, and CD-ROM and DVD programs, both on and off the Internet, will play an ever larger role in the future of behavioral health care. This address describes the current rapid expansion of CMC and some profound changes that are likely in the future. The reasons for using such CMC programs are addressed, and an example of a new multimedia version of the Addiction Severity Index is describ…

  • Behavioral health care dot-com and beyond

    Simon H BudmanARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2000

  • Theory and practice of brief therapy

    Simon H BudmanBOOKTheory and practice of brief…1988

    The author, and individual and group therapist, joins a marital and family therapist to develop a model for brief treatment. Taking a developmental approach to treatment, the authors assume patients may well return to their therapists, at different times during theri lives, as new life stages bring with them novel stresses and problems. In the authors' view, neither traditional long-term treatment nor brief therapy defined as a certain number of …

  • Efficacy of a Brief Psychosocial Intervention for Symptoms of Stress and Distress Among Patients in Primary Care

    Gerald L Klerman, Simon H Budman et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1987

    Psychosocial problems and symptoms of emotional distress play a prominent role in patients reporting to primary care settings. Interpersonal counseling (IPC) was developed as a brief psychosocial intervention for patients with stress and distress to be administered by nurse practitioners in a primary care setting. The results of a pilot study indicate more rapid reduction of symptoms and improvement in emotional symptoms and psychosocial function…

  • A Controlled Study of the Impact of Mental Health Treatment on Medical Care Utilization

    Simon H Budman, Annette B Demby et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1984

    The authors report on a controlled examination of the effects of mental health intervention on the use of medical services in a health maintenance organization. Thirty-six patients were randomly assigned, after initial evaluation, either to begin immediately short-term (15 weekly session) group therapy or for those same 15 weeks to remain on a waiting list. The results seemed to indicate that both patients treated immediately and patients who wer…

  • The Stress of Marital Separation

    Donald Wertlieb, Simon H Budman et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1982

    Relationships between life stress and illness form the basis of much current thinking and practice in psychosomatic medicine. This study examines a particular life stress, marital separation, in a controlled, prospective design. Participants are 237 Health Maintenance Organization [HMO] subscribers followed over a two-year period. Marital separation was experienced by 117 of these participants early in the two-year study period. A stratified rand…

  • Clients Lexical Organization and Psychotherapist's Empathy Level

    Open AccessSimon H BudmanARTICLEPsychological Reports1972

    This study examined the effect of a speaker's language organization upon the empathic response of an interviewer. Naive undergraduate students interviewed confederates who had been trained to manipulate the organization of their language. Language organization was found to have no effect upon the interviewers' empathic response. Implications are discussed