Common Factors
Cut the cake.
Extratherapeutic change 40%
Common factors 30%
Expectancy 15%
Techniques 15%
Includes way of being, therapeutic alliance, and skills and techniques. What is it called?
The therapeutic pyramid
Values “both-and” in the debate on common factors versus specific factors.
Moderate position on common factors.
"Therapists establish a stronger therapeutic alliance if it is based on face-to-face contact" is used as an argument for what?
For expanding the treatment system
Name two Other Mediating and Moderating variables as common factors.
Allegiance of the therapist or the researcher; Organization and coherence of the therapy model
The tendency for similar results to be achieved within a system from different initial conditions and in many different ways.
Equifinality
It is collaborative and affected by the therapist relationship/social skill.
Therapeutic alliance
Has a clear framework and set of techniques for instilling hope.
Functional Family Therapy
Including other dimensions of the treatment setting - client, therapist, relationship, expectancy variables.
Broad view of common factors.
Name 4 threats to the therapeutic alliance.
Lack of confidence; Lack of liking; Lack of feedback; Lack of respect for MFT models; Lack of a repair after a tear; Lack of Goal specificity and consensus; Lack of clarity around homework and other therapeutic tasks; Lack of support from the indirect system
Name and Explain the guiding metaphor in model-driven change versus common-factors driven change.
Medical: considers treatment as analogous to medical procedures and drugs.
Contextual: believes such qualities as credibility, alliance, and allegiance “surrounding” the treatment are more important than the unique aspects of treatment.
Why did common factors emerged 50 years after the beginnings of psychotherapy.
Because the models developers, also the leading writers in the field, have a personal interest in highlighting how unique their proposed model is. Treatment differences instead of similarities are accentuated.
5 principles to get in sync with a client’s motivation:
Express empathy; Develop discrepancy; Avoid argumentation; Roll with the resistance; Support self-efficacy
Name the 4 CFT common factors.
Conceptualizing difficulties in relational term; Disrupting dysfunctional relational patterns; Expanding the direct treatment system; Expanding the therapeutic alliance
Name the 6 major categories of common factors.
Client characteristics; Therapist Characteristics; Dimensions of the Therapeutic relationship; Expectancy; Nonspecific mechanisms of change; other mediating and moderating variables
WRITE the Name of the 6 Stages of Change and the 9 Processes of change. The team with the most correct answers win.
Stages of change: Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance, Termination
Processes of change: Dramatic relief, Counterconditioning, Self-reevaluation, Self-liberation, Contingency Management, Helping relationships, Consciousness raising, Environmental reevaluation, Stimulus control