The integration of psychodynamic and behavior therapies revisited: Approaching rapprochement? Implications for theory and practice

Establishing how psychological therapies work: the importance of mediation analysis

“…These included enhancement of interpersonal functioning and teaching self-monitoring to allow early selfintervention during relapses (Miklowitz & Scott, 2009). Such processes have also been implicated in interpersonal therapy (IPT) (Lipsitz & Markowitz, 2013) and can be seen to be present in other therapies such as CBT (Livesley, 2007;Steever, 1999), MBT (Epstein et al, 2008) and counselling (Howey & Ormrod, 2002). It was particularly noteworthy that effective therapies shared a number of common characteristics with regards to how the model of therapy was shared with the patient, how the therapy was delivered and the structuring of treatment (Miklowitz & Scott, 2009).…”