Table of contents
Preface
1. Introduction
Section I. Foundations of psychotherapy research
2. The prehistory of psychotherapy and its implications for psychotherapy science: shamanism, folk medicine, philosophy, and religion
3. Historical paths in psychotherapy research
4. The philosophy of psychotherapy science: mainstream and alternative views
5. Psychotherapia academica universitatis: a philosophical argument for the academic discipline of psychotherapy
6. 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 research
9. 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 perspective
19. 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