What is it about?
The therapist utilized a person-centered approach in an unscripted role-play with a client experiencing infidelity-related distress. Segments of clinical work and transcript excerpts were viewed through three complementary conceptual lenses. Each lens revealed details of a person-centered approach that can be seen as consistent with the three “pillars” of evidence-based practice in psychology as set out by the American Psychological Association in 2006.
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Why is it important?
It demonstrated how a person-centered approach can be practiced consistent with evidence-based practice in psychology in both granularity and overall spirit for an initial client session, which in itself contributed to the field of psychotherapy.
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This article may well have been the first to demonstrate consistencies between fine-grained individual practice and evidence-based practice in psychology, irrespective of the specific therapeutic approach.
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This page is a summary of: Evidence-based practice in psychology and person-centered therapy for infidelity-related distress., The Humanistic Psychologist, January 2026, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/hum0000414.
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