Call for Papers for a Special Issue of

Psychologia on
Evidence and Narratives in Psychotherapy Research and Practice

The guest editor of Psychologia invites researchers and practitioners to submit original articles for a special issue on evidence and narratives in psychotherapy research and practice. Historically, outcome research has favored quantitative data, while process research has valued narrative or qualitative data. In practice, outcome assessment of psychotherapy is informed by assessment of therapeutic process. The special issue welcomes papers on innovative approaches to evaluating psychotherapy process and outcome using a variety of clinical research designs. We welcome papers illustrating complementary roles of quantitative and qualitative data in contextualized case-based studies and studies evaluating process components in evidence-based psychotherapies. Both conceptual and empirical papers will be considered.

The guest editor of this special issue is Dr. Junko Tanaka-Matsumi.
Four copies of submissions should be sent to the guest editor at the address below.

For instructions to authors, please see http://www.educ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/cogpsy/psychologia/index.htm

 

Deadline for submission: 30 January, 2013

Submitted papers will undergo a process of peer review.

Address of Guest Editor

Junko Tanaka-Matsumi
Department of Integrated Psychological Sciences
Kwansei Gakuin University
1-155 Ichibancho, Uegahara
Nishinomiya-City, 662-8501 Japan
Email: Jmatsumi
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Expected Publication June, 2013