Psychotherapy Research

Catalog description

An examination of the history of psychotherapy research that focuses on such major topics as therapeutic alliance, alliance ruptures and treatment failures, common versus specific factors, and differential treatment outcome. Significant psychotherapy research studies and programs (e.g., the NIMH depression study), and empirically validated treatments are reviewed. A number of psychotherapy research assessment instruments that measure different change mechanisms in therapy are demonstrated using vignettes of videotaped sessions. Students interested in pursuing psychotherapy research are thus provided some hands-on experience with a number of measures. This course is the equivalent of Research and Design II. Prerequisite: Psychology 600 Must be a student in the Doctoral Psychology program