What are Extratherapeutic factors?
Similarly, it is asked, what are the common therapeutic factors?
Joel Weinberger and Cristina Rasco listed five common factors in 2007 and reviewed the empirical support for each factor: the therapeutic relationship, expectations of treatment effectiveness, confronting or facing the problem (exposure), mastery or control experiences, and patients' attributions of successful outcome
- Installation of hope. Hope is vital in any therapeutic setting.
- Universality.
- Imparting of information.
- Altruism.
- The corrective recapitulation of the primary family group.
- Development of socialising techniques.
- Imitative Behaviour.
- Group Cohesiveness.
In this way, what are the four primary determinants of effective treatment?
Extratherapeutic Factors, Therapeutic Relationship, Positive Expectancy and Treatment Model/Interventions are the four primary determinants of effective treatment according to the three authors in the Heart & Soul of Change.
As therapist Joyce Marter, LCPC, said, “In therapy, change may mean letting go of dysfunctional relationship patterns, irrational beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviors and then replacing them with a more positive, conscious and proactive mode of operation that leads to greater happiness, wellness and success.”