How important are the common factors in psychotherapy? An update

By B. Wampold. World Psychiatry, 2015

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Patients’ Accounts of Increased “Connectedness” and “Acceptance” After Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression (2017, neutral): “…to play a role in determining treatment outcomes (Greenberg, Constantino, & Bruce, 2006; Visla, Constantino, Newkirk, Ogrodniczuk, & Söchting, 2016; Wampold, 2015; Wampold et al., 2005) and it is likely that many of the patients in this trial had positive expectations and/or experienced a positive…”
Effectiveness of Self-Compassion Related Therapies: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2018, positive): “It is important that conditions arematched on social contact in order to control for the significant impact of common factors in psychotherapy (Wampold 2015).”
Systematic review and meta-analysis of AI-based conversational agents for promoting mental health and well-being (2023, positive): “…were key determinants of user experience, which corresponds to previous psychotherapy research that identi ﬁ es these common elements (e.g., therapeutic alliance, empathy, and therapist effect) as active ingredients contributing to therapeutic changes across various therapeutic frameworks 61 .”