Mediators and mechanisms of change in psychotherapy research.

By A. Kazdin. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Mindful Parenting in Mental Health Care: Effects on Parental and Child Psychopathology, Parental Stress, Parenting, Coparenting, and Marital Functioning (2013, background): “Mechanisms of change are defined as the basis for the effect, i.e., the processes or events that are responsible for the change; the reasons why change occurred or how change came about (Kazdin 2007).”
Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science (2020, background): “Given the unique circumstances of COVID-19, data will be vital to determine causal mechanisms associated with poor mental health, 31,32 including loneliness and entrapment.”
A review of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) empirical evidence: Correlational, experimental psychopathology, component and outcome studies. (2010, background): “Further research is emphasized with respect to processes of change that could satisfy the strictest criteria for mediation (Kazdin, 2007).”
Emotion Regulation and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Prospective Investigation (2013, background): “In other words, although change in PTSD symptom severity and emotion regulation strategy use appear to be bidirectionally related, it remains to be determined whether increases in adaptive emotion regulation are an active treatment ingredient that directly facilitates treatment success (i.e., served”
How does mindfulness-based cognitive therapy work? (2010, methodology): “To establish mediation requires attention to several key aspects of study design (Kazdin, 2007; Kraemer, Wilson, Fairburn, & Agras, 2002; Murphy, Cooper, Hollon, & Fairburn, 2009).”
Handbook of cognitive-behavioral therapies (2009, neutral): “Indeed, although the research designs and statistical techniques employed in most of these studies are appropriate for testing whether reductions in depressive symptoms and negative cognitions covary during CT, they do not allow for rigorous tests of the causal relations between symptoms and cogniti”
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy versus Traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Current Empirical Evidence (2012, methodology): “Seventh, although the mediation analyses conducted seem to yield coherent findings for ACT, more sophisticated analyses are needed in which the timeline issue should be addressed and alternative mediators would be tested (Kazdin, 2007).”
Rebooting Psychotherapy Research and Practice to Reduce the Burden of Mental Illness (2011, background): “Although there are many EBTs available, there is little understanding of the mechanisms of change (i.e., precisely how they work; Kazdin, 2007).”
Single-Case Experimental Designs: A Systematic Review of Published Research and Current Standards (2012, background): “The effect of autocorrelation on statistical inference in single-case applications has also been known for quite some time (e.g., R. R. Jones et al., 1977; Kanfer, 1970; Kazdin, 1981; Marshall, 1980).”
The value of psychological flexibility: Examining psychological mechanisms underpinning a cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for burnout (2013, background): “It has been suggested that inferences about causality in mediator-outcome relationships are stronger when a clear gradient can be demonstrated (see Kazdin, 2007; Nock, 2007).”
Effectiveness of Guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Regular Clinical Settings (2013, neutral): “Even if mediators of outcome are important to consider for treatment development [Kazdin, 2007], it is probably the case that predictors of outcome are more important when moving an intervention to routine clinical practice.”
Reenvisioning Clinical Science: Unifying the Discipline to Improve the Public Health (2014, neutral): “Despite substantial advances in the understanding of neurobiological, behavioral, and psychological mechanisms of disorders, these understandings are not sufficiently linked to mechanisms of action in intervention development research (Kazdin, 2007; Murphy, Cooper, Hollon, & Fairburn, 2009).”
A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Social Skills Interventions for Youth With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (2012, background): “Such investigations are a critical step in improving SSIs by identifying the most effective treatment strategies (Kazdin, 2007).”