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 …

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

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

The variance in outcomes for psychotherapy patients is not partitionable into components
that are independent contributions of treatments, therapists, and patients. If these inputs did …

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 …

This chapter is organized around the following series of questions: What happens in
psychotherapy? How do therapies differ? How do clients act and think differently? What are …

Introduces the special series on advances in psychotherapy process research. This special
series of articles attests to the fact that psychotherapy process and outcome are becoming …

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 …

Abstract [compares the domains of process and outcome in psychotherapy research] to one
another and also to clinical literature by observing that... process research aims to determine …

In this chapter we unpack what is meant by psychotherapy process research and what are
the overarching aims of such research. We then look at types of process research and some …