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Of significant differences in outcome therapies has been attributed to both therapist variables and to patient variables. The therapist variables include many factors being common to the different psychotherapies. The patient variables include the heterogeneity of patient populations, high spontaneous improvement rates, premature patient termination, and other improvement issues.

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