I have been engaged in several outcome research studies wherein we had the typical control/experimental group and looked at results from pre to post.
Now I am interested in perhaps doing some studies about trying to break down the individual factors that may be contributing to the change (e.g. the specific factors/interventions outlined in the treatment manuals).
Does anyone have any ideas or articles they're aware of that do this well?
I would encourage you to consider the non-specific factors of therapy (e.g., therapeutic alliance, empathy, positive regard) as well as any specific factors/interventions.
here is a current paper that has broken down the dialect between client and therapist to determine thresholds between safety and risk... attempting to measure change via therapeutic collaboration.
Ribero,E., Ribero., A.P., Goncalves, M. M., Horvath, A. O., & Stiles, W. B. (2013). How collaboration in therapy becomes therapeutic: The therapeutic collaboration coding system, Psychology and Psychotherpy: Theory, Research and Practice, 86, 294-314
Islamic system is preventive rather than curative and consists of a mature integration of mental and physical aspects with the spiritual dimensions of human.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261436978_CONCEPTUAL_AND_PRACTICAL_UNDERSTANDING_OF_COUNSELING_IN_ISLAM
Article CONCEPTUAL AND PRACTICAL UNDERSTANDING OF COUNSELING IN ISLAM
Try - Zilcha-Mano, Sigal and Jaxques Barber, "Learing from Well-Trained and Experienced Dynamic Psychotherapists: Research on the Efficacy of Dynamic Psychotherapy and its Mechanisms of Change", Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 2014, Vol. 50, Nos. 1-2, 58-88.
In addition to ratings of the therapeutic alliance, including ruptures & repairs (see my profile for examples), I would look at therapist individual differences, if some therapists are more effective than others (see Bruce Wampold's contribution in this regard). These two variables seem to be most predictive of outcome.
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