PROMISES AND PERILS OF EMPIRICALLY SUPPORTED PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION

Proponents of psychotherapy integration have more to gain than to lose by embracing the movement toward identifying empirically supported tr eatments (ESTs). EST research is fully compatible with theoretical int egration, essential to technical eclecticism, and at least partially c ompatible with most common-factors approaches to integration. The EST framework highlights the importance of treatment manuals in integratio n research and encourages investigation of whether effective intervent ions (either common or specific) retain their original efficacy when t ransported from one therapeutic context or model to another.