Integrating psychotherapy research and practice: Modeling the change process.

Abstract

Despite the fact that leading psychotherapy researchers have persistently endorsed the use of intensive analysis procedures over the years, the field has been slow to act upon these recommendations. This article identifies a number of factors responsible for this slowness: the uncritical utilization of conventional research methodologies, the failure to distinguish between different types of intensive analysis designs, the assumption that intensive analysis is necessarily unscientific, and the fact that the behavioral single-case experimental design are inappropriate for studying other forms of therapy. The task-analysis approach to psychotherapy research is presented as a methodologically rigorous alternative to the behavioral single-case experimental design.