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Expanding the lens of evidence-based practice in psychotherapy: A common factors perspective.
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In this article, we examine the science and policy implications of the common factors perspective (CF; Frank & Frank, 1993; Wampold, 2007). As the empirically supported treatment (EST) approach, grounded in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), is the received view (see Baker, McFall, & Shoham, 2008; McHugh & Barlow, 2012), we make the case for the CF perspective as an additional evidence-based approach for understanding how therapy works, but also as a basis for improving the quality of mental health services. Finally, we argue that it is time to integrate the 2 perspectives, and we challenge the field to do so.
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“The therapeutic alliance (the affective bond between therapist and patient, and agreement on the tasks and goals of therapy) is the most widely studied common factor.46,52”
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“existing work only focuses on GenAI’s capacity to produce responses high in perceived empathy, one of the five key elements of the therapeutic process according to the common factor metatheory.”
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“The common factors metatheory describes how different therapeutic orientations produce similar results for clients, stipulating that successful therapies share at least five common “ingredients:” therapeutic alliance, empathy, expectations, cultural competence, and therapist effects [27, 28, 31–33].”
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“Given that common factors undergird and act as a mechanism for much of the evidence-based treatment literature [27, 28], and the direction and size of the effects, consulting with ChatGPT may be a way to improve declining or stagnating effect sizes within the evidence-based clinical psychological sciences [34, 35].”
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- Authors
- Laska, K. M., Gurman, A. S., & Wampold, B. E.
- Affiliations
- Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- ORCID
- Wampold, Bruce E.
- Venue
- Psychotherapy
- Published
- 2014
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 467-481
- ISSN
- 0033-3204 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1536
- OpenAlex
- W2327281039
- Semantic Scholar
- 6006f594d7a6fd3ad956dd7da833c59f1d33be41
- Cited by
- 443
- References
- 151
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 34 · 2020: 47 · 2019: 51 · 2018: 37 · 2017: 53 · 2016: 44 · 2015: 36 · 2014: 15
- FWCI
- 34.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychotherapy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Keywords
- empirically supported treatments, evidence-based practice, psychotherapy outcome, randomized controlled trials, mental health care quality, treatment integration
- MeSH terms
- Mental Disorders, Humans, Psychotherapy, Evidence-Based Medicine, Empirical Research
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