Psychotherapy Research

"This book focuses on psychotherapy research, in terms of both process and outcome. ... The intended audience is researchers, clinicians, and undergraduate and graduate students. ... This excellent book extensively covers the psychotherapy process and outcomes, supplying hundreds of references for follow-up." (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2015)

• Section I: Foundations of psychotherapy research:The Prehistory of Psychotherapy and Its Implications for Psychotherapy Science: Shamanism, Folk Medicine, Philosophy, and Religion.- Historical paths in psychotherapy Research.-The philosophy of psychotherapy science: Mainstream and alternative views.- Psychotherapia Academica Universitatis: A Philosophical Argument for the Academic Discipline of Psychotherapy.- Interpretation as a Cognitive Instrument. Psychotherapy Science as an Attempt to Pool Paradigm-based Systems of Interpretation.- Institutional parameters of psychotherapy education as a prerequisite for systematic psychotherapy research.- Theory-Building, Enriching, and Fact-Gathering: Alternative Purposes of Psychotherapy Research.- Section II. Psychotherapy process research: Introduction to psychotherapy process research.- Outlines of a general theory of the psychotherapy process. The clinical exchange as communicational field: Implications for theory and methodology.- The Relationship: How it Works.- Data analysis in psychotherapy research.- Quantitative approaches to treatment process, change process, and process-outcome research.- Current issues on group psychotherapy research: An overview.- The Process of Change in Psychotherapy: Common and Unique Factors.- Therapeutic alliance and alliance ruptures and resolutions: Theoretical definitions, assessment issues and research findings.- Positive emotions in psychotherapy: Conceptual propositions and research challenges.- Psychotherapeutic Process from the Psychotherapist's Perspective.- From a psychoanalytic narrative case study to quantitative single case research.- Qualitative methods in psychotherapy process research.- Applications of Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Counseling and Psychotherapy Research.- Interpretation-Driven Guidelines for Designing and Evaluating Grounded Theory Research: A Constructivist-Social Justice Approach.- Consensual QualitativeResearch (CQR) Methods for Conducting Psychotherapy Process Research.- Conversation analysis and psychotherapy process research.- A pragmatic approach to the study of therapeutic interaction: Towards an observational science of psychotherapy process. Section III. Psychotherapy outcome research: Quantitative psychotherapy outcome research: Methodological issues.- Qualitative methods in psychotherapy outcome research.- Outcome Research on Disorder-Specific Treatments: The Case of Grief Therapy.- Outcome research: Methods for Improving Outcome in Routine Care.- Psychotherapy outcome research and neuroimaging.