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Goldfried (1980) recommended that a consensual approach to psychotherapy be based on principles of change that cut across existing therapeutic systems. This paper reviews the common principles approach and suggests that commonalities identified so far represent neither meaningful consensus nor adequate guidelines for research. Instead of researching common principles to obtain consensus, we might do well to conduct therapy research within existing orientations but with flexibility in regard to what techniques are studied.
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Preparation of this article was facilitated by a University of Southern California Graduate School Fellowship,. I am grateful to W. Edward Craighead, Steven D. Hollon, anonymous reviewers, and especially Gerald C. Davison for comments on earlier versions of this article.
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Haaga, D.A. A review of the common principles approach to integration of psychotherapies. Cogn Ther Res 10, 527–537 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01177816
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