A 12-fold category system of therapeutic change processes was applied to 10 sessions of client-centered, rational-emotive, and experiential psychotherapies conducted by exemplars of each approach. By analyzing the results within and across each category and approach, the findings indicated therapeutic change processes common across the approaches and subsets distinctive to each approach.
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