Four Versions of Transtheoretical Stances, and the Bernese View

Authors

  • Franz Caspar Orcid
    Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • Thomas Berger Orcid
    Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Abstract

A brief characterization of transtheoretical stances to which existing approaches can be allocated is followed by a description of the "Bernese view", that is, what Klaus Grawe and his colleagues, including the authors of this article have developed: the origins, a model of the multiple constraint satisfaction construction of therapist action, a discussion of psychotherapy integration, the crucial role of supervisors in an integrative multiple constraint satisfaction approach, and a discussion of when and how trainees should be introduced to a transtheoretical stance.