Author Description

<b>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.</b><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Deliberate practice methods are provided so that clinicians can rehearse common factor approaches and integrate them into their own work.<br> <br> 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‑defined common factors model of treatment and paves the way for future innovations.