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<big>'''Welcome to Psychotherapedia'''</big>

== Getting started ==

We are embarking on a new journey as the field of [[psychotherapy]] matures toward a unified clinical science (Magnavita, 2006.<ref name="Magnavita2006">Magnavita, J. J. (2006). In search of the unifying principles of psychotherapy: Conceptual, empirical, and clinical convergence. ''American Psychologist, 61''(8), 882-892.</ref> It appears that we are leaving the era of integration and entering a new phase of unification whereby the underlying principles and processes that operate in all approaches to psychotherapy are being more clearly articulated (Magnavita, 2008.<ref name="Magnavita2008">Magnavita, J. J. (2008). Toward the unification of clinical science: The next wave in the evolution of psychotherapy? ''Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 18''(3), 264-291.</ref> Considerable progress has been and continues to be made in mapping the important elements of contemporary psychotherapeutic (See Figure 1 below). Theory is the foundation upon which contemporary psychotherapeutics rests. The principles emerge out of the combination of the patient-therapist factors as they are applied in the technical process of utilizing methods and techniques, which are the central domain.