Editorial introduction.

This editorial discusses the Special Section on New Psychotherapy Treatments. The articles in this section each present individual studies of new psychotherapeutic treatments or literature reviews of research on such treatments. These studies do not meet what currently is viewed as the methodological gold standard for treatment outcome studies in our field. Instead, they generally represent beginning efforts at studying new treatments. They reflect the kinds of studies and reviews that have great heuristic potential, and they also ought to be of value to the psychotherapy practitioner. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)