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.

Mixed methods research is an exciting approach offering opportunities to combine unique, idiographic and generalisable, nomothetic approaches to a research problem. To some, mixed methods pave way for inter-disciplinary communication, allowing for different standpoints to be negotiated and integrated. Others draw on mixed methods for more pragmatic reasons, to bring credibility to a research project by triangulating research results.

We're inviting papers where mixed methods research has guided the study. We particularly welcome papers where ‘mixing methods’ have been considered in context of traditional epistemological and disciplines constraints:

on what basis did you decide to use mixed methods?
how did you structure and design the study?
which mixed methods approach did you use?
what was gained - and maybe lost?
what did mixed methods add to the study?

We're interested in both practical and political upcoming issues, including those concerning the politics of using mixed methods approaches within and across disciplines.

Guest editors

Dr Sofie Bager-Charleson is a BACP and UKCP registered psychotherapist and supervisor, who works at the Metanoia Institute, London as Director of Studies on the MPhil/PhD in Psychotherapy. She chairs the research group “Therapists as Research Practitioners (TRP)” and is the co-founder of the annual Metanoia Research Academy for practitioners.

Dr Alistair McBeath is a chartered psychologist and BACP registered psychotherapist. Trained at Regents College and Guys Hospital he is a doctoral research supervisor at the Metanoia Institute and the New School of Counselling and Psychotherapy. He also works for an Edinburgh based therapeutic consultancy.

Alistair and Sofie are co-editing the upcoming book Enjoying Research in the field of Therapy. Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed methods research (Palgrave MacMillan 2020 in press) and have recently completed mixed-method studies into ‘Therapists and Research’ (Bager-Charleson et al 2019, CPR Journal) and ‘Psychotherapists’ Views on Academic Writing’ (McBeath et al. 2019, EJQRP Journal).

Panos Vostanis is Professor Child Mental Health and CPR Editor. Panos has clinical experience with vulnerable groups such as looked after, refugee and homeless children and young people. He has completed research on the impact of trauma on child mental health, and the evaluation of interventions and services. In recent years, Panos founded the World Awareness for Children in Trauma programme. Its objective is to develop evidence-based interventions and service guidelines for children who suffer complex trauma, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

Submission process

Write to the guest editor, Dr Sofie Bager-Charleson by 30 April 2020 with a tentative title and a working abstract of 500 words maximum.

Successful authors will be notified by 15 May 2020 and invited to submit first drafts of manuscripts by 1 September 2020.

Manuscripts should be no longer than 7,000 words (including references, tables, and figures), and include a 250-word structured abstract. All manuscripts will be subject to peer review.

For informal enquires please contact any of the guest editors:

You can find author guidelines on the Wiley website.

Latest issue - June 2020

Perspectives

Tips to make research teaching and learning enjoyable and productive for counsellors, psychotherapists and their tutors
Divine Charura, Chris Hudson

Review article

What do clinical supervision research reviews tell us? Surveying the last 25 years
C Edward Watkins Jr

Methodological paper

Assessment of self‐contempt in psychotherapy: A neurobehavioural perspective
Ueli Kramer, Julien Renevey, Antonio Pascual‐Leone

Original articles

Difficult to change? The differences between successful and not‐so‐successful participation in anger management groups
Gary Shepherd, Matthew Cant

Intensive Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (ITAP): A case series study
Irene Messina, Francesco Scottà, Enrico Benelli, Arianna Marchi, Marco Sambin

Change process in systemic therapy: A qualitative investigation
Anna Dourdouma, Omar Carlo Gioacchino Gelo, Kathrin Moertl

Experiences of compassion focused therapy in eating disorder recovery: A qualitative model
Georgina Mullen, Clodagh Dowling, Jillian Doyle, Gary O'Reilly

Resistance and outcome expectations in cognitive‐behavioural therapy for generalised anxiety disorder
Khuraman Mamedova, Henny A Westra, Michael J Constantino, Nazanin Shekarak Ghashghaei, Martin M Antony

Clients with different problems are different and questionnaires are not blood tests: A template analysis of psychiatric and psychotherapy clients' experiences of the CORE‐OM
Clara Paz, Lila Adana‐Díaz, Chris Evans

A follow‐up study to a randomised control trial to investigate the perceived impact of mindfulness on academic performance in university students
Sebastian J M Bóo, Jasmine Childs‐Fegredo, Steven Cooney, Bella Datta, Géraldine Dufour, Peter B Jones, Julieta Galante

Do public universities have more effective counselling services than private universities in Melaka?
Vemala Thuryrajah, Elsadig Musa Ahmed, Robert Jeyakumar Nathan

Can clinical psychology students benefit from brief and intensive mindfulness training?
Elisabeth Schanche, Jon Vøllestad, Per Einar Binder, Berge Osnes, Endre Visted, Julie Lillebostad Svendsen, Lin Sørensen

An evaluation of the effectiveness and acceptability of a new technology system to support psychotherapy helping skills training
David Murphy, Faith Liao, Petr Slovak, Lisa-Marie Holle, Dan Jackson, Patrick Olivier, Geraldine Fitzpatrick

Physical framework for a counselling environment in India: Thematic analysis of counsellors' perceptions
Anjali Miriam Dey, Aneesh Kumar

Relational processes and the emergence of harmful supervision events: A narrative analysis of a single case
Duncan Cartwright

A thematic analysis of practitioners' understanding of domestic abuse in terms of post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex‐PTSD (C‐PTSD)
Wiktoria Kozlowska

Client‐initiated disclosure of psychotherapists' sexual orientation: A narrative inquiry
Alan Stuart McPherson

Brief research report

Borderline personality disorder level predicts change in depressiveness after short‐term group psychotherapy: A study in a daily psychiatric clinic
Anna Zajenkowska, Justyna Barycka, Katarzyna Chotkowska

This issue will only be available online - print copies cannot be provided.

Cover of CPR March 2020

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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.