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The various types of psychotherapies are roughly equivalent in effect size (book: the measure of the magnitude of the treatment effect) All therapies have common factors, which are probably more important than their own unique theories. Resenzweig: effectiveness of different therapies have more to do with their common elements than with the theoretical tenets on which they are based. Therapist by him/herself is sufficient to make a difference. Patients have traditionally been viewed as deficient, passive recipients. Worse than nonspecific factors such as the alliance and client s emotional involvement with the therapist. Conflate: (formal) to combine two or more things together to make one new thing. Idiographic: pertaining to or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events. Nomothetic: relating to, involving, or dealing with abstract, general, or universal statements or laws. I m bringing up my reading speed without paying attention to the grasp of meaning and it s working in the right direction!
