As is elaborated below, this view can be considered mostly hot air since the therapy model or technique accounts for only 1% of the outcome variance in psychotherapy, whereas the client and the therapist account for much more of the outcome variance.

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Helpful considerations when selecting a particular model are: models principally advance therapy by providing a healing ritual, provide novelty for clients and therapists, help therapists change their minds about clients rather than make up their minds, there is a smorgasbord of models to choose from, each provides structure and plan for clients to do something different.

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The program provides milieu therapy, a school of treatment in which patients relearn basic values and skills by immersing themselves in a model community.

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