Research in Psychotherapy and Counselling

Ladislav Timulak is course director of the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at Trinity College, Dublin. He previously worked at the University of Trnava, Slovakia, and has extensive research and practical experience in the field of counselling and psychotherapy, as well as experience in conducting psychotherapy and counselling psychology training.

PART 1: PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING OUTCOME RESEARCH Instruments Used for Measuring Psychotherapy and Counselling Outcome Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) Alternatives to Randomized Control Trials Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews Empirically Supported Treatments Dose-Effect Research Client and Therapist Characteristics and the Effect of Psychotherapy PART 2: PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING PROCESS RESEARCH Instruments Used in Psychotherapy and Counselling Process Research Instruments Some Methodological Problems of Researching Therapy Process Process-Outcome Research Descriptive Investigation of Therapeutic Process Testing Theories of Therapeutic Change and Therapeutic Mechanisms PART 3: CONTEXT AND PRACTICE Research on the Context of Psychotherapy and Counselling Research and Practice Link

`With the increasing emphasis on conducting research that makes a difference to governmental and other policy organisations, it seems likely that the kinds of methodologies introduced by Timulak will be of growing interest to researchers. In this respect, the book will be at the cutting edge of developments in counselling and psychotherapy research' - Professor Mick Cooper, University of Strathclyde `The content is comprehensive and covers the full range of knowledge and information that a trainee psychologist/psychotherapy researcher would want to have... It offers a general overview of psychotherapy research methods and their logic which is not duplicated in any book that I know of' - Georgia Lepper, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy, University of Kent