What is effectively therapeutic about psychotherapy? The generic model of psychotherapy
provides an empirically valid conceptual representation of psychotherapy process and …

Responding to an invitation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the journal Psychotherapy,
the goal of this article is to describe three general ways by which the impact of …

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 …

This paper reviews findings from two studies that support the contentions of the Generic
Model of Psychotherapy that therapeutic outcome must be viewed as arising from a complex …

Abstract The “Generic Model of Psychotherapy” was initially presented 25 years ago
(Orlinsky & Howard, 1984) and was conceived as a transtheoretical frame for integrating the …

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 …

As a field, psychotherapy has long been dominated by the different types (or orientations) of
psychological therapies in practice. Though there are hundreds if not thousands of different …

▪ 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 …

Psychoanalytic therapy research can be divided into 4 generations, marked by increasing
conceptual sophistication and technological enhancement. The 1st generation (1917–1968) …

To understand how and why psychotherapy works, it is necessary to focus on (both) the
process of psychotherapy (ie, what takes place during the treatment) and the relationship …