Common Factors Therapy: A Principle-Based Treatment Framework

by Russell J Bailey, Benjamin M Ogles

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.
 
The authors discuss five key common the therapeutic relationship, motivation, corrective experiencing, insight, and self‑efficacy, which serve as heuristics for therapists of any background.
 
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.
 
Deliberate practice methods are provided so that clinicians can rehearse common factor 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‑defined common factors model of treatment and paves the way for future innovations.

Genres: Psychology

386 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 7, 2023

Reviews

[Courtney Rada · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the analogy of therapy as the hero’s journey with the therapist in the mentor role, as well as outlining an overview of how to conceptualize therapy from common factors. I feel like eclecticism is still somewhat innate in the approach but that makes me like it even more tbh.