THE DISSEMINATION OF EFFICACIOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS

I concur with Dr. Garfield that therapist, client, and common treatmen t factors are important and are often likely to explain significant ou tcome variance. I disagree with him in terms of whether the existence of such other outcome predictors should lead to a derision not to diss eminate efficacious treatments. the list of examples of empirically va lidated treatments by the American psychological Association Division 12 task Force was not an effort at minimizing the importance of such c lient, therapist, and common factors but rather an attempt to help dis seminate what has been learned regarding treatments. The list of empir ically validated treatments is fully compatible with an eclectic appro ach. I conclude with the recommendation that dissemination of empirica lly validated treatments is probably most successfully done through tr aining programs.