| Abstract: | The breadth of developments in the area of psychotherapy and the significant policy issues have prompted the development of Special Issues on Psychotherapy Research for the American Psychologist (AP) and the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (JCCP). The JCCP issue has been designed to bring together different types of articles, including discussion and review articles as well as empirical investigations, to address theoretical and methodological issues, to convey current thinking in substantive areas, and to outline future directions. The AP issue has been designed to address topics of psychotherapy research that interface with the public domain as well as topics regarding knowledge utilization and training. The simultaneous publication of the two issues is intended to provide a unique resource for professionals interested in current research topics and their implications for the field and healthcare in general. In the development of the Special Issues, there was no intention to represent the field in terms of all or even most of the different orientations, approaches, and substantive positions. The Special Issues are designed to illustrate and sample the range of advances and current directions in research and to point to new areas as well. The articles that follow in this Special Issue address several specific areas of work from different segments of the field and convey major directions in contemporary research, new methodologies, and reformulations of major questions about processes and outcomes of treatment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
