Common Factors Therapy A Principle-Based Treatment Framework

This book highlights common factors as a psychotherapeutic treatment and offers related techniques that can be used as rubrics to improve clinical practice and training.
 
The authors discuss five key common factors: the therapeutic relationship, motivation, corrective experiencing, insight, and self‑efficacy, which serve as heuristics for therapists of any background.
 
Each factor is broken down into a set of core principles, intervention concepts, and example techniques, such as motivational interviewing skills, confronting distress to move towards change, adopting a multicultural orientation, and empowering clients.
 
Deliberate practice methods are provided so that clinicians can rehearse common factor approaches and integrate them into their own work.
 
Reviewing past efforts to define actionable common factors—including the contextual model of therapy—as well as transtheoretical studies and techniques, the book provides a uniquely well‑defined common factors model of treatment and paves the way for future innovations.

Russell J. Bailey, PhD, is a professor at Utah Valley University's Behavioral Science department with a training program for Clinical Mental Health Counselors. His research interests include therapy itself, what makes it effective, and what can make it more effective.​ He completed a PhD in Clinical Psychology at Brigham Young University in 2010 and has previously worked in private practice, veterans affairs, juvenile justice, and university counseling center settings, including as tenured university clinical faculty.

Benjamin M. Ogles, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Brigham Young University, where he also serves as the dean of the College of Family, Home and Social Sciences. Dr. Ogles completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology at Brigham Young University and did a clinical internship at Indiana University. Publications coauthored by Dr. Ogles have appeared in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, and the Journal of Child and Family Studies among other publications. He was the lead author of the book Essentials in Outcome Management written with Michael J. Lambert and S. Field.

Preface
Introduction: A Common Factors Approach to Therapy 
Chapter 1: The History and Theory of Common Factors Therapy 
Chapter 2: Therapeutic Relationship, Common Factor 1
Chapter 3: Motivation, Common Factor 2
Chapter 4: Corrective Experiencing, Common Factor 3
Chapter 5: Insight, Common Factor 4
Chapter 6: Self-Efficacy, Common Factor 5
Epilogue: The Future of Common Factors Therapy 
References
Index
About the Authors