Dear Dean,

Clin Psychol Psychother. 2014 Jan-Feb;21(1):82-96. Towards a taxonomy of common factors in psychotherapy-results of an expert survey.

Tschacher W, Junghan UM, Pfammatter M.

"Method: A review identified 22 common factors discussed in psychotherapy research literature. We conducted a survey, in which 68 psychotherapy experts assessed how common factors are implemented by specific techniques. Using hierarchical linear models, we predicted each common factor by techniques and by experts' age, gender and allegiance to a therapy orientation."

Siegling, A. B., Petrides, K. V. (2014). Measures of trait mindfulness: Convergent validity, shared dimensionality, and linkages to the five-factor model. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:1164. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01164

"The study set out to examine whether a single dimension can explain the shared variance among these measures as well as the extent to which they converge with one another and in terms of their linkages to the five-factor model (FFM). Two samples completed all trait measures of the construct and one of them additionally completed a measure of the Big Five personality traits. Results showed that a single dimension explains the shared variance among measures based on the original, Eastern conceptualization of mindfulness, although not all of them seem to represent this construct comprehensively. Intercorrelations, dimensionality analysis, as well as linkages to the FFM indicated that the Eastern and Western conceptualizations, and their respective measures, reflect distinct constructs"

You may enjoy looking at  Kevin McCarthy paper on the Mult  in Psychotherapy Research that I have attached.  Let me know if that helps and we can take it from there

Article The Multitheoretical List of Therapeutic Interventions (MULT...

I am not sure I got your question well, but if I did, there is no clear classification of therapies. CBT is more evidence-based, transpersonal is less evidence based for instance. You can look-up for particular interventions to check the validity of each, ignoring the paradigm. And there is always the common factors model, but that means you're not talking about the ”many psychotherapies” but about the same therapy a lot of people do in different ways. I hope I could be of some help (at least 1%). Write me to [email protected] if you found that helpful in some way.

I assume you are already familiar with the Competency Frameworks developed at UCL? They are a helpful starting point for addressing your question:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/clinical-psychology/CORE/competence_frameworks.htm

Hi

Did you get anywhere with this? I'm looking to do exactly what you describe in your question and have not been able to find anything fitting other than creating my own..

Thanks

Hi Jennifer,

I am aware of Michies behaviour change taxonomy Article The Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy (v1) of 93 Hierarchic...

and the UCL competence frameworks may provide what you need http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/cehp/research-groups/core/competence-frameworks

Or you can make your own condition-specific taxonomy beginning with a review of the literature before examining consensus for each component using a Delphi survey. This is what I did.

Thank you very much Dean, that's really helpful!