Rationale
The absence of a common language for psychotherapy procedures leads different therapists to use different terms to describe the same procedure and/or the same term to describe different procedures. This often confuses professionals and clients. The EABCT and AABT therefore set up a joint Task Force to work towards a common language that is internationally accepted. The Task Force aims to develop a dictionary of psychotherapy procedures which can serve as a reference guide to encourage therapists from different schools to use the same terminology to describe the procedures they employ in their clinical practice. A common language would reduce confusion and facilitate the progress of psychotherapy towards becoming a science. It will focus on terms for procedures, not theory, while recognising that procedure and theory can be hard to unravel. It will briefly describe terms for a broad range of psychotherapy procedures in plain language. Each entry will describe WHAT therapists do, not why they do it.
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