Objective: Although the effectiveness of psychotherapy is well documented, little progress
has been made in elucidating mechanisms of change. Major impediments to progress are …

Despite the advances in psychotherapy outcome research, findings are limited because they
do not fully generalize to the way therapy is conducted in the real world. Research's clinical …

The central goal of psychotherapy research is to achieve an understanding of the change
mechanisms giving rise to clients' clinical improvement. Efforts towards this goal have been …

Psychotherapy process and outcome research is defined as the scientific investigation of
psychotherapy as a treatment for mental and behavioral health problems. This area of …

Significant progress has been achieved in the last decades in studying two central questions
in psychotherapy research: what treatment works for which patient and why does treatment …

Although the gap between psychotherapy practice and research has been present for some
time, recent pressures for accountability from outside the system—managed health care and …

Abstract Treatment-focused research is concerned with the establishment of the comparative
efficacy and effectiveness of clinical interventions, aggregated over groups of patients. The …

Contends that despite clear demonstrations by process researchers of systematic
differences in therapists' techniques, most reviews of psychotherapy outcome research show …

▪ Abstract Psychotherapy is facing challenges that relate to the emergence of managed
health care, the possibility of a national health care system, and advances in biological …

The value of adopting a case-specific approach to studies of psychotherapy has been noted
in numerous recent reviews. However, few studies have assessed the suitability of therapist …