Description
Book SynopsisThis book highlights common factors as a psychotherapeutic treatment and offers related techniques that can be used as rubrics to improve clinical practice and training. The authors discuss five key common factors: the therapeutic relationship, motivation, corrective experiencing, insight, and self-efficacy, which serve as heuristics for therapists of any background.
Each factor is broken down into a set of core principles, intervention concepts, and example techniques, such as motivational interviewing skills, confronting distress to move towards change, adopting a multicultural orientation, and empowering clients.
Deliberate practice methods are provided so that clinicians can rehearse common factor approaches and integrate them into their own work.
Reviewing past efforts to define actionable common factors—including the contextual model of therapy—as well as transtheoretical studies and techniques, the book provi
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: A Common Factors Approach to Therapy
Chapter 1. Common Factors: Hypothesis to Metatheory to Theoretical Orientation
History: Common Factors as a Metatheory
Defining Specific, Nonspecific, and Common Factors
Collections of Common Factors
The Abstraction Problem
A Potential Solution: What Is Needed
Specified Components Chapter 2. The Therapeutic Relationship, Common Factor 1
Overview of the Therapeutic Relationship
The Therapeutic Relationship as a Vehicle for Change
Inclusion Criteria for the Therapeutic Relationship
Exclusion Criteria for the Therapeutic Relationship
Definition of the Therapeutic Relationship
Intervention Concepts for the Therapeutic Relationship
Ending Therapy
Summary Chapter 3. Motivation, Common Factor 2
Overview of Motivation
Inclusion Criteria for Motivation
Exclusion Criteria for Motivation
Definition of Motivation
Intervention Concepts for Motivation
Summary Chapter 4. Corrective Experiencing, Common Factor 3
Overview of Corrective Experiencing
Inclusion Criteria for Corrective Experiencing
Exclusion Criteria for Corrective Experiencing
Definition of Corrective Experiencing
Intervention Concepts for Corrective Experiencing
Summary Chapter 5. Insight, Common Factor 4
Overview of Insight
Inclusion Criteria for Insight
Exclusion Criteria for Insight
Definition of Insight
Intervention Concepts for Insight
Summary Chapter 6. Self-Efficacy, Common Factor 5
Overview of Self-Efficacy
Inclusion Criteria for Self-Efficacy
Exclusion Criteria for Self-Efficacy
Definition of Self-Efficacy
Intervention Concepts for Self-Efficacy
Summary Epilogue: The Future of Common Factors Therapy
References
Index
About the Authors
