Goals and psychotherapy research

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-110
Author(s):  
Georgiana Shick Tryon
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Outcome Research ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome ◽  
Collaborative Relationship ◽  
Therapy Goals ◽  
Outcome Relationship ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome Research

This chapter, ‘Goals and psychotherapy research’, examines goals in psychotherapy as they relate to clinical outcomes by surveying the extant research. Following a brief discussion of the importance of goals for personal development, the chapter focuses on research concerning the collaborative relationship between client and psychotherapist in goal-setting and effecting psychotherapy tasks to meet therapy goals, with particular emphasis on the client-therapist collaborative-outcome relationship. Next, the chapter reviews goal-psychotherapy outcome research for both adult and child/adolescent clients. The research presented is interpreted using clinical examples. The chapter closes with conclusions gleaned from the research reviewed followed by suggestions for practitioners.

scholarly journals Experimenting with Psychotherapy

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andri Steinþór Björnsson
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Research ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Way

There are two major shortcomings in current psychotherapy outcome research: The standards that are used to evaluate psychotherapy (especially the way control conditions are set up in outcome research) are often not acceptable, and non-specific factors have been largely neglected, in part because of the “psychological placebo” metaphor. I argue that theories of psychotherapy need to specify further the role of non-specific factors in the development and maintenance of different disorders, and how non-specific treatment factors can be made to be more effective in therapy. This may be the major front in the future of psychotherapy research.

Psychotherapy Outcome Research and Neuroimaging

2014 ◽  
pp. 611-634
Author(s):  
Roberto Viviani ◽  
Magdalena Nagl ◽  
Anna Buchheim
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Research ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome Research

A Brief Comment on Meta-analyses of Psychotherapy Outcome Research

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-233
Author(s):  
S. Rachman
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Research ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Meta Analyses

The article by Shapiro and Shapiro (1982) published in Behavioural Psychotherapy is one of three, or possibly four, which they have written on the subject of meta-analytic approaches to the evaluation of psychotherapy. Commenting on each of their articles would be burdensome for critics and tedious for readers. Wilson and Rachman (1982) have already written an evaluation of the Shapiros' position, and as Wilson (1982) gives an incisive and comprehensive critique of their Behavioural Psychotherapy article, I will confine myself to a few brief remarks.

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