ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we consider the use of a common factors framework as a basis for both research-informed practice and practice-informed research in counseling and psychotherapy. Practice-based evidence is a means by which to represent the knowledge base for working with groups underrepresented in the published research. Common factors is a well-supported framework for counseling and psychotherapy that is open to theory development and diversity as well as research on emerging or traditional healing practices. A practice that increases cultural competence is the decontextualization and recontextualization of a therapy for a particular problem, group and setting.
