What to read after Common Factors Therapy?

The integrative framework offered by this book synthesizes common factors research and theory into a bona fide theoretical orientation with actionable guidelines and techniques for improving clinical practice and training. The five common factors it describes are the therapeutic relationship, motivation, corrective experiencing, insight, and self-efficacy, which serve as heuristics for therapists to guide their practice. 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 toward change, adopting a multicultural orientation, and empowering clients. Deliberate practice methods are provided so that clinicians can rehearse common factors 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 provides a uniquely well-define common factors model of treatment and paves the way for future innovations.