A Process-Based Approach to Transtheoretical Clinical Research and Training

Area of Science:

• Psychopathology
• Clinical Psychology
• Integrative Psychology

Background:

• Current psychopathology and intervention practices are fragmented.
• Limited understanding and misunderstandings exist between different therapeutic traditions.

Purpose of the Study:

• To introduce Process-Based Therapy (PBT) as a unifying framework.
• To define psychopathology as failed adaptation processes.
• To outline PBT's therapeutic approach using biopsychosocial strategies.

Main Methods:

• PBT defines psychopathology as failed adaptation processes.
• Therapy involves adaptation via context-dependent or context-altering biopsychosocial strategies.
• Employs an idiographic complex network analytic approach to analyze change processes.

Main Results:

• PBT provides a coherent, transtheoretical, and integrative approach to clinical training and practice.
• It targets biopsychosocial processes of change.
• Findings are organized within multi-dimensional, multi-level evolutionary science.

Conclusions:

• PBT is an empirical form of functional analysis.
• It leads to interventions and training tailored to specific client needs.
• Case formulation is an ongoing process throughout PBT treatment.