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    Common factors play an important role in psychotherapy. There are three main pathways for how psychotherapy benefits patients: the real relationship between patient and therapist, patient expectations, and specific treatment ingredients. A strong therapeutic alliance formed early in treatment, empathy from the therapist, properly managing patient expectations, and ensuring cultural adaptation of treatments are some of the most important common factors. Further research is still needed to better understand therapist effects and how to maximize the benefits of common factors in psychotherapy.

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    Common factors play an important role in psychotherapy. There are three main pathways for how psychotherapy benefits patients: the real relationship between patient and therapist, patient expectations, and specific treatment ingredients. A strong therapeutic alliance formed early in treatment, empathy from the therapist, properly managing patient expectations, and ensuring cultural adaptation of treatments are some of the most important common factors. Further research is still needed to better understand therapist effects and how to maximize the benefits of common factors in psychotherapy.

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    Common factors play an important role in psychotherapy. There are three main pathways for how psychotherapy benefits patients: the real relationship between patient and therapist, patient expectations, and specific treatment ingredients. A strong therapeutic alliance formed early in treatment, empathy from the therapist, properly managing patient expectations, and ensuring cultural adaptation of treatments are some of the most important common factors. Further research is still needed to better understand therapist effects and how to maximize the benefits of common factors in psychotherapy.

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    Common

    Factors
    IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
    Jorge Flores | A01283595
    Dania Gabriela Salazar | A00832447
    Lilian López | A01177637

    1
    CONTEXTUAL MODEL

    Initial interaction with the


    therapist is critical.
    3 pathways through which
    psychotherapy produces benefits:

    REAL RELATIONSHIP EXPECTATIONS SPECIFIC INGREDIENTS

    Patient and therapist Therapist helps the


    Expectations influence patient to perform
    are genuine to each
    experience. healthy actions, like
    other.
    Therapy provides coping accepting one's self, or
    Therapy provides an
    tools for patient's expressing difficult
    emphatic and caring
    difficulties. emotions.
    connection.
    Expectations are created by All treatments of the
    theoretical explaining and contextual model have
    activities consistent with it. specific ingredients.

    Evidence for various common factors


    Alliance

    2
    Bond, agreement about the goals and tasks of therapy in early session.
    Empathy and related constructs
    Necessary for the cooperation, goal sharing, and regulation of social interaction. There is a
    correlation between the px chracteristics and personality and emphaty in regard to the effects.
    Expectations
    Explain the patient the disorder, treatment, and participating in the therapeutic actions. Also,
    correlate the ratings of expectations with outcomes.
    Cultural adaptation of evidence-based treatments
    Acceptance is a very important point of treatment with ideals of the patient. Belief about nature
    of illness, coping, language, culture, among others.
    Therapist effects
    When there are consist achievements. Is diffciult to measure but some caracteristics of a
    effective therapists are: able to form stronger alliances, facilitative interpersonal skills, express
    professional selfdoubt, and practice of skills in free time.

    Relevance

    3
    A therapeutic process does not only involve the relationship and good
    connection between the therapist, who is trained to show empathy, promote
    and look after the health of the individual, but also, must provide accessible
    tools (depending on every person's possibilities) to overcome and endure their
    situations or struggles.
    Another important aspect therapists should cover is the empowerment of the
    patients so that they can believe in their capacity to solve their issues.
    Without said aspects, patients would not be able to imagine a treatment, where
    they can achieve their goals, without it being a stressful experience. As a
    consequence, the probability that the patients perform activities beneficial to
    their health reduces.

    4
    Additional Info

    The common factors must be


    considered therapeutic and it is
    necessary further research and
    practice. The main critic is that
    they are an atheoretical
    collection of commonalities.

    REFERENCES
    Wampold, B. E. (2015). How important are the common factors in psychotherapy? An
    update. World psychiatry, 14(3), 270-277. doi:10.1002/wps.20238

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