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.

Student mental health is a topic that has recently come very much to the fore.

We're primarily seeking empirical papers, quantitative or qualitative, but will also consider thoughtful conceptual articles that clearly contribute to moving the field forward. The primary focus is on mental health but we'll consider articles on psychological wellbeing, providing its relationship to mental health is clear.

We'll consider submissions from UK and international institutions that we judge to have wide appeal to the readership and encourage all authors to consider and be explicit regarding policy implications.

We're particularly interested in:

holistic and systemic approaches to supporting student mental health and psychological wellbeing
innovative interventions for supporting student mental health or psychological wellbeing
mental health and mature or returning students
mental health and the transition into college or university and after graduation
preventative approaches to reducing rates of student mental ill-health
strategies for identifying and helping to reduce suicide risks
the effectiveness of student counselling services (submissions must be more substantive than a single service evaluation)
use of digital technologies in aid of student mental health

Submission process

Write to the guest editor, Professor Michael Barkham by 1 December 2019, with a tentative title and a working abstract of 500 words maximum.

Successful authors will be notified by 1 February 2020 and invited to submit first drafts by 1 July 2020.

Manuscripts should be a maximum of 7,000 words (including footnotes, references, tables and figures), and include a 250-word structured abstract. All manuscripts will be subject to peer review.

For informal enquiries please contact any of the guest editors:

Michael Barkham m.barkham@sheffield.ac.uk
Emma Broglia emma.broglia@bacp.co.uk
Bridgette Bewick b.m.bewick@leeds.ac.uk

You can find author guidelines on the Wiley website.

We're seeking submissions concerning interventions in the counselling and psychotherapy field addressing digital technologies in counselling and psychotherapy.

We're particularly interested in:

innovative approaches
service user perspectives
range of digital technologies
range of uses of digital technologies
range of research methods
interdisciplinary approaches
international perspectives
ethical implications
legal implications
implications for policy
implications for practice

Submission process

Write to the Contact Editor, Dr Terry Hanley by Friday 17 January 2020 with a tentative title and a working abstract of 500 words maximum.

Successful authors will be notified by Friday 14 February 2020 and invited to submit first drafts of manuscripts by Friday 31 July 2020.

Manuscripts should be no longer than 7,500 words (including footnotes, references, tables, and figures, but excluding the abstract), and include a 250-word structured abstract. All manuscripts will be subject to peer review.

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Terry Hanley.

You can find author guidelines on the Wiley website.

Latest issue - December 2019

Perspectives

Towards an evidence‐base for student wellbeing and mental health: Definitions, developmental transitions and data sets
Michael Barkham, Emma Broglia, Géraldine Dufour, Mark Fudge, Louise Knowles, Alan Percy, Afra Turner, Charlotte Williams, on behalf of the SCORE Consortium

Special section: Therapists and knowledge

Guest editors: Sofie Bager-Charleson, Alistair McBeath and Simon Du Plock

“She was on my side, and grounded me when I needed it:” Research supervision in the field of therapy, based on counsellors’ and psychotherapists’ views on their engagement with research
Sofie Bager Charleson

“Nothing is just smooth or perfect”: What can students learn from intensively reviewing psychotherapy conducted by experienced therapists whilst being focused on emotional processes?
Elisabeth Schanche, Aslak Hjeltnes, Geir Høstmark Nielsen, Signe Hjelen Stige, Jan Reidar Stiegler

The motivations of psychotherapists: An in‐depth survey
Alistair McBeath

Early reflections on becoming a therapist: Development of reflective practice in clinical training programmes in an Australian context
Nicole L Robinson, Robert D Schweitzer, Erin L O'Connor

Three modes of psychotherapy and their requisite core skills
Lars‐Gunnar Lundh

Original articles

A qualitative analysis of young people's experiences of receiving a novel, client‐led, psychological therapy in school
Anamaria Churchman, Warren Mansell, Yasmin Al‐Nufoury, Sara Tai

Associations between mindfulness and general change mechanisms in individual therapy: Secondary results of a randomised controlled trial
Louisa D’Errico, Manuela Call, Paul Blanck, Eva Vonderlin, Hinrich Bents, Johannes Mander

A naturalistic pilot study assessing the impact of assessment pathways and intake methods within Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services
Scott Steen, Adrian Hemmings, Joan Foster, Jill Bedford, Sue Gorbing

What are the barriers to accessing psychological therapy in Qatar: A concept mapping study
Ellie Brown, Annie Topping, Richard Cheston

Clients' perceptions of unhelpful factors in CBT in IAPT serving a deprived area of the UK
Joanna Omylinska‐Thurston, Aaron McMeekin, Peter Walton, Gillian Proctor

The effect of counselling programmes involving expressive activities with semi‐structured groups on self‐concealment levels of adolescents
Merve Çalık, Eyüp Çelik

Relationship in context: Processes in school‐based counselling in Hong Kong
Mark Gregory Harrison

The piloting of a brief relational psychodynamic protocol (psychodynamic addiction model) for problem gambling and other compulsive addictions: A retrospective analysis
Angela Mooney, Amanda Roberts, Andrew Bayston, Henrietta Bowden‐Jones

Identifying and developing therapeutic principles for trauma‐focused work in person‐centred and emotion‐focused therapies
David Murphy, Robert Elliott, Lorna Carrick

Intervention training using peer role‐play and standardised patients in psychodynamic psychotherapy trainees
Christoph Nikendei, Julia Huber, Johannes C. Ehrenthal, Wolfgang Herzog, Henning Schauenburg, Jobst‐Hendrik Schultz, Ulrike Dinger

Best professional practices when approaching religiosity/spirituality in psychotherapy in Brazil
Vivian Fukumasu da Cunha, Fabio Scorsolini‐Comin

Social justice competencies for counselling and psychotherapy: Perceptions of experienced practitioners and implications for contemporary practice
Jason Brown, Samantha Wiendels, Vanessa Eyre

How do counsellors having menopausal symptoms experience their client work: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
Carol Bodza, Tara Morrey, Kevin F Hogan

Cover of CPR September 2019

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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.