| Abstract: | Discusses the attempts made by researchers to measure the extent to which a given psychotherapeutic technique is carried out and applied skillfully in evaluating the efficacy of a given type of psychotherapy. Such measures are objective and are used in research designs that have generalizability. They also provide an opportunity to test theories of how psychotherapy helps patients. It is asserted that conceptualizing therapist behavior in terms of the specific factors has less of a tendency to perpetuate the therapist "uniformity myth" than conceptualizing therapist behavior in terms of nonspecific factors. (29 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
