Principles of Change constitutes a new approach to evidence-based practice in psychotherapy that goes beyond the traditional and unidirectional dissemination of research, whereby clinicians are typically viewed as passive recipients of scientific findings. Based on an extensive review of literature, it first offers a list of 38 empirically based principles of change grouped in five categories: client prognostic, treatment/provider moderating, client process, therapeutic relationship, and therapist interventions. Six therapists from diverse theoretical orientations then describe, in rich and insightful detail, how they implement each of these principles. The book also offers exchanges between researchers and clinicians on several key issues, including: how similarly and differently change principles are addressed or used across a variety of treatments; and how clinicians' observations and reflections can guide future research. By presenting together these unique yet complementary experiences, Principles of Change will support synergetic advances in understanding and improving psychotherapy, laying the foundation for further collaborations and partnerships between stakeholders in mental health services.

This book presents deliberate practice exercises in which students and trainees rehearse fundamental cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) skills until they become natural and automatic. Instructions guide readers through role-plays in which two participants play a client and a therapist, switching back and forth under a supervisor's guidance. The therapist improvises responses to common client statements, ranging in difficulty from beginner to advanced, allowing them to hone their own personal therapeutic style and develop basic competence.

The 2-volume APA Handbook of Psychotherapy comprehensively presents the field based on the primary ways in which professionals practice psychotherapy and affect such practice through theory, research, and training.  50 authoritative chapters capture the most representative ways in which psychotherapists characterize the driving forces behind their foundational therapeutic approaches. Therapists may: Administer psychotherapy according to a specific theoretical orientation, applying this model across most patients and contexts. Use a specific, "named" therapy to primarily treat patients suffering from a particular disorder. Draw on research evidence to administer psychotherapy in a way that can include, but also transcend, specific theoretical. orientations and disorder-specific interventions. Generate data and draw on varied forms of research psychotherapy in a participant-driven and contextually responsive manner. These chapters represent the latest thinking and evidence on the most relevant topics across the "big four" psychotherapy domains of theory, research, practice, and training. All four parts are written for researchers, practitioners, scholars, and trainers, with the major difference among the sections being their emphasis on, and order of, discussing the "big four" elements.