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Principles of therapeutic change: a task force on participants, relationships, and techniques factors.

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The structure and process of a task force aimed at delineating empirically based principles of change in psychotherapy are presented, which addressed the potential role of participant characteristics, relationship variables, and technical factors in the treatment of dysphoric, anxiety, personality, and substance use disorders.
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The authors present the structure and process of a task force aimed at delineating empirically based principles of change in psychotherapy. Sponsored by Division 12 of the American Psychological Association and the North American Society for Psychotherapy Research, the task force addressed the potential role of participant characteristics, relationship variables, and technical factors in the treatment of dysphoric, anxiety, personality, and substance use disorders.

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Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change

TL;DR: The NIMH Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program: Where We Began and Where We Are (I. Elkin, et al. as discussed by the authors ) presents a methodology, design, and evaluation in psychotherapy research.
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Relation between Working Alliance and Outcome in Psychotherapy: A Meta-Analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the quality of the working alliance (WA) was most predictive of treatment outcomes based on clients' assessments, less so of therapists' assessments and least predictive of observers' report, and a moderate but reliable association between good WA and positive therapy outcome was found.
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The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, Methods and Findings

TL;DR: In this article, the benefits of psychotherapy were established by meta-analysis and meta-models were compared against the medical model and the contextual model, with the conclusion that psychotherapy is derived from specific ingredients.
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Empirically Supported Psychological Interventions: Controversies and Evidence

TL;DR: The work of several task forces and other groups reviewing empirically supported treatments (ESTs) in the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere is summarized here, along with the lists of treatments that have been identified as ESTs.
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