Psychotherapy Research (eBook)

Table of contentsPreface 1.        Introduction Section I. Foundations of psychotherapy research2.        The prehistory of psychotherapy and its implications for psychotherapy science: shamanism, folk medicine, philosophy, and religion 3.        Historical paths in psychotherapy research4.        The philosophy of psychotherapy science: mainstream and alternative views 5.        Psychotherapia academica universitatis: a philosophical argument for the academic discipline of psychotherapy6.        Interpretation as a cognitive instrument. Psychotherapy science as an attempt to pool paradigm-based systems of interpretation 7.        Institutional parameters of psychotherapy education as a prerequisite for systematic psychotherapy research 8.        Theory-building, enriching, and fact-gathering: alternative purposes of psychotherapy research Section II. Psychotherapy process research9.        Introduction to psychotherapy process research 10.    Outlines of a general theory of the psychotherapy process. The clinical exchange as communicational field: Implications for theory and methodology 11.    The relationship: how it works 12.    Data analysis in psychotherapy research 13.    Quantitative approaches to treatment process, change process, and process-outcome research 14.    Current issues on group psychotherapy research: an overview 15.    The process of change in psychotherapy: common and unique factors 16.    Therapeutic alliance and alliance ruptures and resolutions: Theoretical definitions, assessment issues and research findings 17.    Positive emotions in psychotherapy: conceptual propositions and research challenges 18.    Psychotherapeutic process from the psychotherapist's perspective19.    From a psychoanalytic narrative case study to quantitative single case research 20.    Qualitative methods in psychotherapy process research 21.    Applications of qualitative and mixed-methods counseling and psychotherapy research 22.    Interpretation-driven guidelines for designing and evaluating grounded theory research: a constructivist-social justice approach 23.    Consensual qualitative research (CQR) methods for conducting psychotherapy process research 24.    Conversation analysis and psychotherapy process research 25.    A pragmatic approach to the study of therapeutic interaction: towards an observational science of psychotherapy process Section III. Psychotherapy outcome research 26.    Quantitative psychotherapy outcome research: methodological issues 27.    Qualitative methods in psychotherapy outcome research 28.    Outcome research on disorder-specific treatments:  the case of grief therapy 29.    Outcome research: methods for improving outcome in routine care 30.    Psychotherapy outcome research and neuroimaging