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.

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 - September 2019

Perspectives

Social justice and remembering “the personal is political” in counselling and psychotherapy: So, what can therapists do?
Laura Anne Winter

Special section: Therapists and knowledge

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

Editorial

Counselling and psychotherapy research special section: What core knowledge is needed to be a therapist?
Sofie Bager-Charleson, Alistair McBeath and Simon Du Plock

Articles

Ontological and epistemological reﬂexivity: A core skill for therapists
Carla Willig

The relationship between psychotherapy practice and research: A mixed-methods exploration of practitioners’ views
Sofie Bager-Charleson, Alistair McBeath and Simon Du Plock

Teaching and learning evidence-based practices: Promoting dialogue for counsellors and psychotherapists
Robert Allan

The professional development of counsellors and psychotherapists: Implications of empirical studies for supervision, training and practice
Michael Helge Rønnestad, David E Orlinsky, Thomas A Schröder, Thomas M Skovholt and Ulrike Willutzki

The talking cure—building the core skills and the conﬁdence of counsellors and psychotherapists to work effectively with multilingual patients through training and supervision
Beverley Costa and Jean-Marc Dewaele

Recording client sessions during psychotherapy training: From “an absurd idea” to “potent learning”
Aisling Mcmahon and Kathryn Ledden

Digital images as meaning bridges: Case study of assimilation using avatar software in counselling with a 14-year-old boy
Biljana Van Rijn, Evi Chryssafidou, Caroline J Falconer and William B Stiles

Graduate training in psychotherapy: The importance of ongoing clinical activity for the training faculty
James C Overholser

Review

Dialectical behaviour therapy and 12-step programmes for substance use disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Ezechiele Giannelli, Christian Gold, Lucja Bieleninik, Claire Ghetti and Omar C G Gelo

Original articles

Getting absorbed in group therapy: Absorption and cohesion in integrative group treatment
David Kealy, Katharine D McCloskey, Daniel W Cox, John S Ogrodniczuk and Anthony S Joyce

Relationship between self-worrying and self-critical messages in clients with generalised anxiety engaging in emotion-focused worry dialogues
Rochelle Toolan, Megan Devereux, Ladislav Timulak and Daragh Keogh

Women’s experiences of group intervention with schema therapy techniques: A qualitative process analysis
Sevda Sari and Faruk Gençöz

Self-concept of relational skills in psychotherapy trainees: A pilot study
Elitsa Tilkidzhieva, Omar C G Gelo, Salvatore Gullo, David E Orlinsky, Kathrin Mörtl and Jutta Fiegl

Exploratory study of automated linguistic analysis for progress monitoring and outcome assessment
Jonathan Huston, Scott Meier, Myles Faith and Amy Reynolds

Deciding what belongs: How psychotherapists in New Zealand attend to religion and/or spirituality in psychotherapy
Helen Jane Florence, Barbara Mckenzie-Green and Keith Tudor

Counsellors in the National Health Service: A mixed-method study of efﬁcacy and satisfaction from the counsellor perspective
Gemma Ryan, Charlie Duncan and Naomi P Moller

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.

Latest issue - September 2019

Perspectives

Special section: Therapists and knowledge

Editorial

Articles

Review

Original articles

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