Common therapeutic change principles as “sensitizing concepts”: A key perspective in psychotherapy integration and clinical research.

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Weie Oddli ◽  
Helene A. Nissen-Lie ◽  
Margrethe Seeger Halvorsen
1981 ◽  
Vol 36 (12) ◽  
pp. 1547-1548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley B. Messer ◽  
Meir Winokur

Author(s):  
Catherine F. Eubanks ◽  
Marvin R. Goldfried

A principle-based approach to integration provides a framework for identifying common change processes that may exist among different theoretical orientations. This chapter identifies five change principles that are common across orientations and are supported by outcome research: fostering the patient’s hope, positive expectations, and motivation; facilitating the therapeutic alliance; increasing the patient’s awareness and insight; encouraging corrective experiences; and emphasizing ongoing reality testing. By focusing on these change principles, therapists have the flexibility to select a variety of techniques that are responsive to the client’s individual needs and preferences. The chapter also provides examples of techniques that support each principle and illustrates principle-based psychotherapy with a case example. The authors concludes by reviewing the research evidence and suggesting future directions for this approach.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro S. Cavelzani ◽  
Martina Trinchieri ◽  
Maria Carlotta F. Gorio ◽  
Lucia Romeo

It’s becoming even more widely recognized from neurosciences, epigenetics, and clinical research on observation of infant-caregiver interaction that daily cumulated micro-traumatic experiences cause damages not only to one’s mental health and identity, but also to immune system, leading to metabolic, eating, sleeping, affective, behavioural, cognitive and linguistic, and social disorders in adults as well as in children and infants. Relational Psychoanalytic treatment argues that the therapeutic change is related to expanding levels of consciousness and exploring new ways of being in the world. Clinical examples are provided.


1984 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 448-452
Author(s):  
LA Tedesco ◽  
JE Albino ◽  
WM Feagans ◽  
RS Mackenzie

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