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- The therapist plays a key role in the effectiveness of psychotherapy, especially in couple, marital, and family therapy.
- There is a lack of understanding about what makes some therapists more effective than others, including their skills, learning processes, and application of knowledge during therapy sessions.
- The paper calls for a focus on evidence-based therapists rather than just specific therapies, highlighting the importance of therapist training, practice, research, and policy implications.
Article Abstract
In this paper we argue that the therapist is a crucial change variable in psychotherapy as a whole and in couple, marital, and family therapy specifically. Therapists who work with complex systems require more skills to negotiate demanding therapy contexts. Yet, little is known about what differentiates effective couple, marital, and family therapists from those who are less effective, what innate therapy skills they possess, how they learn, and how they operationalize their knowledge in the therapy room. We discuss the need to emphasize evidence based therapists (as opposed to therapies), and implications of the importance of the role therapists for training, practice, research priorities, and policy.
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