Not Just Nonspecific Factors: The Roles of Alliance and Expectancy in Treatment, and Their Neurobiological Underpinnings

Therapeutic factors such as alliance and expectancy have been found to greatly affect treatment outcome in both psychotherapy and psychopharmacotherapy. Often, these factors are referred to as nonspecific because of their common roles across treatment modalities. Here we argue that conceptualizing s...

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Main Authors: Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Steven P. Roose, Patrick J. Brown, Bret R. Rutherford
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00293/full