Practice-Oriented Research in Psychotherapy: Building partnerships between clinicians and researchers - Paperback

by Louis Castonguay (Editor), J. Christopher Muran (Editor)

This book offers an approach to psychotherapy research that is based on a partnership between clinicians and researchers. The book provides tools to help clinicians be active participants in conducting clinically relevant studies, and set the agenda for future research. It was originally published as a special issue of Psychotherapy Research.

Author Biography

Louis G. Castonguay is Professor of Psychology at Penn State University, State College, PA, USA. His work focuses on the process, outcome, and training of psychotherapy, as well as on the development of practice-research networks. He has co-edited seven books on psychotherapy integration, psychotherapy research and practice, principles of therapeutic change, insight and corrective experience in psychotherapy, and psychopathology.　

J. Christopher Muran is Associate Dean and Professor in the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA. He is also the Director of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, a New York City hospital. His research has concentrated on alliance ruptures and resolution processes, and has resulted in seven book collaborations, including Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance (2000), Self-Relations in the Psychotherapy Process (2001), Dialogues on Difference (2007), and The Therapeutic Alliance (2010).