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The Role of the Therapist in Common Factors: Continuing the Dialogue
Author(s) -
Simon George M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2009.00135.x
Subject(s) - psychology , psychotherapist , congruence (geometry) , family therapy , social psychology
The common factors debate conducted on the pages of this and other major family therapy journals has evolved toward a preliminary consensus that the therapist plays a crucial role in activating and effectively bundling common and model‐specific factors in the delivery of successful treatment. However, Blow, Sprenkle, and Davis (2007) remain unconvinced that therapist‐worldview/model‐worldview congruence, which I have hypothesized plays a determinative role in enabling the therapist to effect this activation and bundling, does, indeed, play such a role. In this article, I use key findings of Davis and Piercy’s (2007 a , 2007 b ) recently reported research on common factors to answer Blow and colleagues' objections to my hypothesis.