Experimenting with Psychotherapy

Experimenting with Psychotherapy

There are two major shortcomings in current psychotherapy outcome research: The standards that are used to evaluate psychotherapy (especially the way control conditions are set up in outcome research) are often not acceptable, and non-specific factors have been largely neglected, in part because of...

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Main Author: Andri Steinþór Björnsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The University of Akureyri 2014-03-01
Series:Nordicum-Mediterraneum
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and non-specific factors have been largely neglected
in part because of the “psychological placebo” metaphor. I argue that theories of psychotherapy need to specify further the role of non-specific factors in the development and maintenance of different disorders
and how non-specific treatment factors can be made to be more effective in therapy. This may be the major front in the future of psychotherapy research.
Control conditions; psychological placebo; psychotherapy; specific factors; non-specific factors
Online Access:http://nome.unak.is/nm-marzo-2012/vol-9-no-2-2014/64-conference-paper/424-experimenting-with-psychotherapy

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