What is it about?
Research on change mechanisms of psychotherapy have suggested a large number of such mechanisms, called "common factors". In order to reduce this number, we applied factor analysis. This revealed four classes of common factors: Cognitive Processing (kognitive Verarbeitung), Behavioral Coping (Problembewältigung), Emotion Regulation (emotionale Verarbeitung), and Therapeutic Alliance (Therapiebeziehung und -motivation).
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Why is it important?
we were striving for clarification of the terminological chaos in psychotherapy research
Perspectives
a further step of the "Taxonomy Project" in psychotherapy research
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Tschacher
Universitat Bern
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This page is a summary of: Klassen allgemeiner Wirkfaktoren der Psychotherapie und ihr Zusammenhang mit Therapietechniken, Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie, January 2016, Hogrefe Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.1026/1616-3443/a000331.
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