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    The common factors model of psychotherapy outcomes identifies four factors associated with good outcomes for a variety of treatment models. The four factors are external influences, relationship, client & therapist factors, and therapist technique. Therapist technique accounts for a relatively small amount of outcome, but the four factors are linked. This powerpoint presentation outlines the main features of the common factors model and includes a bibliography.

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    The Common Factors Model suggests that extratherapeutic factors account for 40% of outcomes in psychotherapy, while the therapeutic relationship accounts for 30%, client qualities for 15%, and therapist techniques for 15%.

    The four factors in the Common Factors Model are: extratherapeutic factors (40%), relationships (30%), optimism, motivation, capacities (15%), and skills, techniques (15%).

    The principles of the Common Factors Model are that clients' situations can change for better or worse depending on external influences, relationships with case managers are complex but more trust and problem-solving leads to better outcomes, client and case manager beliefs are essential, and case manager skill is important with intrinsic links among all the factors.

    The Common Factors Model

    of Psychotherapy Outcomes

    Jane F. Gilgun, Ph.D., LICSW


    Professor
    School of Social Work,
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    [email protected]
    September 2010
    The Common Factors Model

     Extratherapeutic Factors (40%)

     Relationships (30%)

     Optimism, Motivation, Capacities (15%)

     Skills, techniques (15%)


    Principles of the Model

     Clients’ situations change for the better/worse


    depending upon external influences
     Relationships to case managers are complex,
    but the more trust and problem-solving in
    relationships, the better the outcomes
     Client and case managers beliefs essential
     Case manager skill important
     Intrinsic links among all four
    Description of a Relationship Going
    Well
     Notice the connections among the factors
    Connections Between the Factors

     Model is unclear about how interconnected


    the four factors are
    Relationships

     Model does not state that access to clients


    can be an issue
    Client Motivation: An Example

     Model predicts client motivation a key factor


    in good outcomes
    External Influences

     Not anticipated by the model

     Medications

     Inability of case manager to influence


    administration of medication
    External Influences

     Schools
     Abetted by relationships
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    Analytic Induction, & Deductive Qualitative
    Analysis
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    Znaniecki, F. (1934). The method of sociology. New York: Farrar
    & Rinehart.
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