Common Factors Therapy: A Principle-Based Treatment Framework

This book highlights common factors as a psychotherapeutic treatment and offers related techniques that can be used as rubrics to improve clinical practice and training. It breaks down five key common factors into core principles, intervention concepts, and example techniques, and provides deliberate practice methods for clinicians to rehearse and integrate them into their own work.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 267 pages
Publication date: 11 April 2023
Publisher: American Psychological Association

This book explores common factors as a psychotherapeutic treatment and presents related techniques that can enhance clinical practice and training. The authors identify five key common factors: the therapeutic relationship, motivation, corrective experiencing, insight, and self-efficacy, which serve as heuristics for therapists of all backgrounds. Each factor is broken down into 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 to help clinicians rehearse common factor approaches and integrate them into their own work. The book reviews past efforts to define actionable common factors, including the contextual model of therapy, transtheoretical studies, and techniques, and provides a uniquely well-defined common factors model of treatment. It paves the way for future innovations in the field of psychotherapy.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781433838873