Therapeutic Therapy: The Unified Psychotherapy

decisional domains that are involved in determining effective treatment strategies. This is aligned with the STS aim of identifying which type of individual will likely benefit from each class of interventions or treatment. A fifth type of psychotherapy integration is the unified psychotherapy.

The unified psychotherapy approach is based in a psychosocial and systemic approach. Therapists who use this approach do not need an advance degree in neuroscience but they must know how the brain functions. The model itself draw from all of the major psychotherapeutic paradigms and is grounded in the relational matrix. Two methods encompasses in the unified psychotherapy approach are expected-transactive restructuring and self –other restricting.

CF does acknowledge that the relationship is important but the therapeutic alliance is just one of the contributing factors for change. It is also significantly important to note that CF is research based, therefore it is aligned with the American Psychological Association outcome-focused approach toward evidence based practice (EBP). Through research the CF approach researchers has concluded that different therapeutic approaches are relatively equal across diagnoses and populations, each approach make different assumption about the development of psychopathology, factors common to the psychotherapies may be the parsimonious explanation for efficacy equivalence, and a therapist personality regardless of the theory used can be a reasoning for

Carl Roger, a humanistic psychologist identified that accurate empathy is one of three characteristics of effective therapist. Yalom, provided a short story of a women who had breast cancer and had a grudge against her father until she looked at the situation from her father’s perspective. Unfortunately, when she finally did look at the situation from her father perspective it was too late for her to apologize to him because he passed away. Yalom uses this sort to remind him that clinicians should try and see things from their patient’s point of view. This can be done by displaying empathy toward their