Compendium of treatment adaptations

Abstract

Psychotherapists have long advocated tailoring or adapting the treatment to the individuality of the patient, and recent research pinpoints how to do so systematically in ways that demonstrably improve treatment outcomes. John Norcross and Bruce Wampold summarise the meta-analytic research and clinical practices on effective means of tailoring psychotherapy to six transdiagnostic patient characteristics: reactance level, stage of change, preferences, culture, coping style, and religion/spirituality. Psychotherapists can create a new, responsive psychotherapy for each distinctive patient and singular situation - in addition to his/her disorder,