Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Journal
Linking research with practice

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research (CPR) is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to linking research with practice in counselling and psychotherapy. It aims to promote high-quality, ethical research that influences, informs and develops counselling and psychotherapy practice.

CPR is published by Wiley and indexed on PsycINFO. It is available online only and is free for BACP members on the Wiley online library.

It is edited by Professor Panos Vostanis and overseen by the CPR editorial board, which provides strategic direction.

BACP members and subscribers can sign up for email alerts, download the CPR app and access previous issues back to 2001. Please see the Wiley website for more information.

Latest issue - September 2021

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Non-members can access the full text of all articles marked free or open access.

Perspectives

Open access
Researching online counselling and psychotherapy: The past, the present and the future
Terry Hanley

The software will see you now: The promise and peril of digital therapy
Lawrence Quill

Open access
Online counselling and goal achievement: Exploring meaningful change and the types of goals progressed by young people
Jenna Jacob, Luis Costa da Silva, Aaron Sefi, Julian Edbrooke-Childs

Testing, testing, one, two, three: Service user evaluation of three standard measures of mental health and well‐being in an online counselling and support service for children and young people
Aaron Sefi, Ian Frampton

Open access
A systematic review of higher education students' experiences of engaging with online therapy
Terry Hanley, Claire Wyatt

Videoconferencing at home for psychotherapy in the postpartum period: Identifying drivers of successful engagement and important therapeutic conditions for meaningful use
Jennifer M. Hensel, Rebecca Yang, Simone N. Vigod, Laura Desveaux

Open access
Therapists' experiences of providing online counselling: A qualitative study
Jonell Smith, Ewan Gillon

Methodological paper

What support do therapists need to do research? A review of studies into how therapists experience research
Sofie Bager-Charleson, Alistair G. McBeath

Review article

Open access
The use of banter in psychotherapy: A systematic literature review
Adrian B. J. Brooks, Pauline L. Herrmann, Sylke Andreas

Original articles

Ambivalence and the working alliance in variants of cognitive‐behavioural therapy for generalised anxiety disorder
Nikoo Norouzian, Henny A. Westra, Melissa L. Button, Michael J. Constantino, Martin M. Antony

Arts for the Blues: The development of a new evidence‐based creative group psychotherapy for depression
Joanna Omylinska-Thurston, Vicky Karkou, Ailsa Parsons, Kerry Nair, Linda Dubrow-Marshall, Jennifer Starkey, Scott Thurston, Irene Dudley-Swarbrick, Surina Sharma

The dose‐effect model is good enough
Keke Schuler, Elizabeth D. Kilmer, Jennifer Callahan, Kristan Dziurzynski, Joshua Swift

Self‐criticism and self‐reassurance in individuals with recurrent depression: Effects of mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy and relationship to relapse
Elisabeth Schanche, Jon Vøllestad, Endre Visted, Julie Lillebostad Svendsen, Per-Einar Binder, Berge Osnes, Petter Franer, Lin Sørensen

Survivor‐led relational psychotherapy and embodied trauma: A qualitative inquiry
Caroline Forde, Nata Duvvury

Situational analysis mapping for transformative thinking, conceptualisation and dialogues in counselling practice
Tanya E. Mudry PhD, MSc, Vanessa Vegter MSc, Tom Strong PhD, MEd

Categories of transdiagnostic processes: Qualitative data from psychotherapy practitioners
António Farinha-Fernandes, Nuno Conceição, Rita Silva

Open access
What do laypersons believe characterises a competent psychotherapist?
Franziska Kühne, Peter Eric Heinze, Florian Weck

Psychological therapists’ experiences of occupational stress and team environment in oncology settings
Giovanna Reitano

The impact of seating arrangement and therapy task on therapeutic alliance formation
Eóin Rickard, David Hevey, Charlotte Wilson

Special issue on Professionals and social media: Professionals’ public life and the therapeutic relationship

Guest editors:

Dr Roberta Attard University of Malta
Dr Aaron Balick Stillpoint Spaces London; University of Essex, UK
Dr Gottfried Catania University of Malta
Dr Ruth Falzon University of Malta

Research Assistant: Karen Decelis

This call for papers is for a special issue focusing on the effect of counsellors and psychotherapists’ social media profiles and communications, professionals who have a public life and its effect on the therapeutic relationship with clients.

We are primarily seeking empirical qualitative or quantitative papers, as well as conceptual and reflective ones, on ethical frameworks for practitioners and supervisors that make a clear contribution in moving the field forward, and providing rigorous research to inform professionals’ codes of ethics and ethical frameworks. All papers should focus on counselling or a range of psychotherapies, rather than on generic mental health or other professional fields.

We are particularly interested in:

Drawing together evidence and/or theory with reference to the development of ethical practice guidelines.
Auto/ethnographic and narrative inquiries that draw from and/or explore the experience of practitioners who have a public life.
Clients’ perspectives; and experience with professionals’ social media platform and public life.
What issues and challenges do clients using social media/clients who are public figures bring to the counselling/psychological therapy session.
Supervisors’ perspective when dealing with such issues in supervision.
Narratives/research on digital boundary violations that have or have not resulted in formal complaints regarding social media and practitioners with a public life.
The challenges of maintaining boundaries between practitioners’ public, personal and professional lives.
Social media and its impact on therapeutic relationships with clients referred with relationship difficulties.
The impact of social media upon people’s wellbeing.

Submission process

Write to the Guest Editorial team on ruth.falzon@um.edu.mt by 15 November 15 2021, with a tentative title and a working abstract of 500 words maximum. All submissions will be acknowledged. Successful authors will be notified by 21 December 2021 and invited to submit first drafts of manuscripts by 30 June, 2022. Manuscripts should be no longer than 7,500 words (including footnotes, references, tables, and figures), and include a 250-word structured abstract and six keywords. All manuscripts will be subject to blind peer review.

For informal enquires please contact any of the Guest Editorial team on ruth.falzon@um.edu.mt

CPR author guidelines

Non-members can subscribe to CPR on the Wiley online library. Libraries and corporations are eligible for discounted rates.

CPR is also available as an app:

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Contribute

CPR welcomes UK and international submissions from counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, or other related professional groups. CPR promotes reflective writing and encourages authors to write about their engagement with their research.

Please see the Author guidelines on the Wiley website for information on making a submission. If you’d like to discuss a submission, please email the editor Panos Vostanis at cpr.editor@bacp.co.uk.

Review

All papers submitted to CPR are reviewed by at least two experienced and independent peer reviewers. To find out more about the review process, how to become a peer reviewer, or how to carry out a review, please see Journal reviewers on the Wiley website.