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Ideal psychotherapy research: A study of significant change processes
Author(s) -
Greenberg Leslie S.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199912)55:12<1467::aid-jclp5>3.0.co;2-2
Subject(s) - psychology , session (web analytics) , recall , psychotherapist , set (abstract data type) , psychological intervention , process (computing) , psychological pain , cognitive psychology , applied psychology , clinical psychology , computer science , psychiatry , world wide web , programming language , operating system
The research approach I recommend involves the intensive analysis of concrete‐change performances using both intensive observation and measurement of in‐session behavior, as well as the investigation of participants' subjective recall of their experience. The goal is to build models of client‐change processes and the therapist interventions that set these in motion. Examples of research efforts to study the allowing of emotional pain, the process of interruption of emotion, and the process of resolution of hopelessness are given. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 55: 1467–1480, 1999.