Some Implicit Common Factors in Diverse Methods of Psychotherapy
- Resource Type
- Academic Journal
- Authors
- Rosenzweig, Saul
- Source
- Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. Mar 01, 2002 12(1):5-9
- Subject
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1053-0479
This article is a republication of a classic paper in which Rosenzweig introduced the concept of common factors in psychotherapy. This seminal idea—which refers to the finding that all forms of psychotherapy seem to share, to some degree, a small number of effective change ingredients—remains highly influential in psychotherapy integration today. Rosenzweig reviewed the data presented by then current forms of psychotherapy and argued that the theories that describe the change principles in each psychotherapy are inadequate to capture those deeper common factors.