Key StrategiesTraining for Individual Psychotherapy (KST-IP) is an integrative method for teaching beginning psychotherapists to utilize a multitheoretical approach to treatment. After trainees have learned basic microskills supporting the therapeutic relationship and other common factors, 3 sets of intervention strategies are introduced. Trainees learn practical strategies drawn from cognitive, emotion-focused, and behavioral therapies and are taught to focus on either thoughts, feelings, or actions based on the individual preference of each client. For each of 3 foundational theories, 8 key strategies are divided into exploration and transformation phases. During the exploration phase, psychotherapists are encouraged to (a) focus on 1 dimension (thoughts, feelings, or actions), (b) understand context and function, (c) analyze adaptive value, and (d) discover patterns outside of awareness. During the transformation phase of treatment, psychotherapists can encourage clients to (e) experiment, (f) modify, and (g) generalize new patterns of thinking, feeling, or acting. This phase concludes with (h) assessment of change and impact on other dimensions.

Multitheoretical psychotherapy for depression is based on the conclusions that many different treatments are effective and diverse psychotherapeutic approaches are based on different clinical hypotheses. Multitheoretical psychotherapy for depression describes a method for choosing an optimal approach or combining interventions from empirically supported treatments based on client characteristics and preferences. A practical method for treatment planning is described that involves (a) conducting a multidimensional survey, (b) establishing 1 or more focal dimensions, (c) formulating a multitheoretical conceptualization that identifies relevant clinical hypotheses, and (d) choosing interventions from a catalog of key strategies. Multitheoretical psychotherapy for depression describes 12 clinical hypotheses and 45 key strategies to help psychotherapists make treatment decisions based on individual client characteristics in a way that is consistent with recommendations for evidence-based practice in psychology.

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Religious commitment is associated with decreased sexual activity, poor sexual satisfaction, and sexual guilt, particularly among women. The purpose of this paper was to investigate how religious commitment is related to sexual self-esteem among women. Participants included 196 female undergraduate students, 87 % of whom identified as Christian. Participants completed the Sexual Self-Esteem Inventory for Women (SSEI-W), Religious Commitment Inventory-10, Revised Religious Fundamentalism Scale, Brief Sexual Attitudes Scale, and a measure of their perception of God's view of sex. Results suggested that women with high religious commitment held more conservative sexual attitudes. Significant relationships between religious commitment and two subscales (moral judgment and attractiveness) of the SSEI-W revealed that women with high religious commitment were less likely to perceive sex as congruent with their moral values and simultaneously reported significantly greater confidence in their sexual attractiveness. A significant relationship between religious commitment and overall sexual self-esteem was found for women whose religion of origin was Catholicism, such that those with higher religious commitment reported lower sexual self-esteem. A hierarchical regression analysis revealed that high religious commitment and perception that God viewed sex negatively independently predicted lower sexual selfesteem, as related to moral judgment. Implications of the findings are provided.

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