Some implications of psychotherapy research for therapeutic practice.

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Abstract
A survey of psychotherapy research findings is digested into 6 broad conclusions, and implications for practice and research are drawn from them. They are: psychotherapy causes clients to become better or worse adjusted than controls; control Ss improve with time as a result of informal therapeutic encounters; therapeutic progress varies with therapist warmth, empathy, adjustment, and experience; client-centered therapy is the only interview-oriented method that has been validated by research; traditional therapies are seriously limited in effectiveness and are relevant for a small minority of disturbances; behavior therapies have considerable promise for enhancing therapeutic effectiveness and should be utilized or experimented with more widely.