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.

Methods in counselling and psychotherapy research are increasingly precise at describing change, and CPR aims to provide an update on cutting-edge methodology described in a practice-friendly way.

This special issue should provide researchers with practical guidelines on how to innovatively assess and analyse change in treatments and any other relevant aspects of therapy.

We're looking for innovative and novel perspectives on well-established, research methods, described in brief papers of up to 4,000 words each. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are welcome. Each paper should have the following structure:

a description of the theoretical underpinnings of the approach
a description of the actual methodology
an example of a study applying the methodology in the context of counselling or psychotherapy research
illustrations of specific clinical material (ie a quantitative analysis of clinically relevant material, a qualitative case study, verbatim client transcripts
a critical discussion of the potential of the approach, including relevance for practice, shortcomings and how shortcomings may be addressed in future research.

The intended audience for this special issue includes early career researchers, researcher-clinicians interested in practice-friendly accounts of methodology, students in counselling and psychotherapy research, and students of clinical and counselling psychology.

All submitted papers will undergo peer-review. Submissions are accepted on the CPR online platform until 30 September 2019.

Guest co-editors:

Ueli Kramer ueli.kramer@chuv.ch
Ladislav Timulak timulakl@tcd.ie

Latest issue

The March 2019 issue includes:

Perspectives

Parenting programmes for parents of children and young people with behavioural difficulties
Geoff Lindsay

Methodological paper

Taking stock of descriptive–interpretative qualitative psychotherapy research: Issues and observations from the front line
Ladislav Timulak and Robert Elliott

Original articles

“That's what they talk about when they talk about epiphanies”: An invitation to engage with the process of developing found poetry to illuminate exceptional human experience
India Amos

Early treatment narcissism associated with later social and sexual functioning among psychotherapy clients
Chance A Bell, Peter J. Jankowski and Steven J Sandage

Facing social fears: How do improved participants experience change in mindfulness‐based stress reduction for social anxiety disorder?
Aslak Hjeltnes, Christian Moltu, Elisabeth Schanche, Ylva Jansen and Per‐Einar Binder

Predictors of men's psychotherapy preferences
Brian P Cole, Gregory J Petronzi, Daniel B Singley and Michael Baglieri

An exploratory study of clients’ experiences and preferences for counselling room space and design
Rachael Sanders and Jennifer Lehmann

Medicine and meaning—How experienced therapists describe the role of medication in recovery processes in bipolar disorder
Marius Veseth, Signe Hjelen Stige and Per‐Einar Binder

An exploration of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic counsellors' experiences of working with White clients
Beverley Spalding, Jan Grove and Alison Rolfe

The unsaid: In‐depth accounts of non‐disclosures in supervision from the trainees’ perspective
Neeshi Singh‐Pillay and Duncan Cartwright

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

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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.