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Mechanisms of Therapeutic Change

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Mechanisms of therapeutic change are rarely studied in psychotherapy . It is truly remarkable that after decades of psychotherapy research, clinical researchers cannot confidently provide an evidence-based explanation for how or why even our most effective interventions produce change. There are few studies and of these almost none meet the criteria of establishing an associated time line between the mechanism and behavior change

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    Theodore Wasserman & Lori Drucker Wasserman

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Wasserman, T., Wasserman, L.D. (2019). Mechanisms of Therapeutic Change. In: Therapy and the Neural Network Model. Neural Network Model: Applications and Implications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26921-0_12

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