Introduction to the special issue on clients? perspective of change in psychotherapy

ROUSSOS, ANDRES

Psychotherapy

American Psychological Association

Lugar: Washington; Año: 2013 vol. 50 p. 503 - 504

0033-3204

The articles included in this special section are based on the works presented in a panel named Clients talking about therapy that took place during the 43rd International Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research in Virginia Beach. One of the main issues at the moment of the rounding up of the panel was the difficulty to reach an agreement about what change represents in psychotherapy research. In this introduction I very briefly present some of the debates that are currently going on about change and the role of qualitative research in that debate. The articles included are qualitative investigations that study the value of clients? perspective from different methodological strategies. The authors used in depth interviews, that allow interviewees to communicate whatever they think and this enables the emergence of new perspectives. I look forward to the translation of the information obtained among these studies, in elements for the development of applied clinical knowledge. Key words: Client perspective, psychotherapy change.