Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Vol 33(4), Dec 2023, 341-347; doi:10.1037/int0000312
Emotional change is an emerging common factor for explaining outcome in psychotherapy. Its measurement is becoming increasingly important for advancing and integrating psychotherapy research. The aim in the special series of 2023 Journal of Psychotherapy Integration was to provide an integrative roadmap for psychotherapy researchers to advance the field of emotional change: The authors believe that the type of measurement is crucial for this effort and ultimately for developing evidence-based theories about the mechanisms of change across psychotherapies. Contributions to the special issue stand as examples of how research designs and the questions they address may represent very different cells in a matrix of processes and methods for assessing emotional change. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)