Common versus specific factors in psychotherapy: opening the black box

The Lancet Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 953-962

  Mulder, Roger ^a   Murray, Greg ^b   Rucklidge, Julia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METACOGNITION; MINDFULNESS; NEUROBIOLOGY; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGY;

HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 85021825965     PISSN: 22150366     EISSN: 22150374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30100-1     Document Type: Review

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