Let's Face Facts: Common Factors Are More Potent Than Specific Therapy Ingredients

By S. Messer, B. Wampold. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Y. Leykin
2. Robert J. DeRubeis
3. S. Messer

Citations in the corpus

• Interpersonal Coordination Dynamics in Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review (2020, background): “1 3 One plausible explanation for why interpersonal coordination has an important role in psychotherapy is that it could be a manifestation of common factors; factors that occur in psychotherapy independent of treatment type, which have shown to be drivers of therapy effectiveness and are typically ”
• Allegiance in Psychotherapy Outcome Research: Separating Association From Bias (2009, background): “Indeed, some researchers, citing the findings related to the possible influence of allegiance, have suggested that the RCT as a psychotherapy research method is fundamentally flawed and therefore has little or no value (Luborsky, 2001; Messer & Wampold, 2002).”
• Evidence-Based Practice: Beyond Empirically Supported Treatments (2004, background): “Here is a brief summary of the empirical findings regarding these two kinds of variables (Messer & Wampold, 2002): Common factors and therapist variability far outweigh specific ingredients in accounting for the benefits of psychotherapy.”