About this journal

Psychotherapy Research seeks to enhance the development, scientific quality, and social relevance of psychotherapy research and to foster the use of research findings in practice, education, and policy formulation. Psychotherapy Research is the official journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. A pan-discipline, pan-theoretical publication, its scope covers all aspects of psychotherapy research from process to outcomes; service evaluation and training. Access to all the online content of the journal from 1991 is available free to all members of SPR.

The journal publishes original research on all aspects of psychotherapy, including its outcomes, its processes, education of practitioners, and delivery of services. It publishes:

• original empirical research papers
• theoretical and methodological research papers
• review articles

The journal is committed to promoting international communication by addressing an international, interdisciplinary audience, and welcomes submissions dealing with:

• diverse theoretical orientations (e.g., psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, humanistic, experiential, systems approaches)
• treatment modalities (e.g., individual, group, couples, family)
• research paradigms (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, clinical trials, process studies, outcome prediction, systematic case studies, measure development, meta-analyses).

Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

Peer Review Integrity

Taylor & Francis and the Society for Psychotherapy Research are committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. All research articles in this journal, including those in special issues, special sections or supplements, have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two independent referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.

If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed. Further information on our preprints policy and citation requirements can be found on our Preprints Author Services page.

Submission is online via Routledge's Submission Portal. Visit the Journal Homepage and click the Submit an article button.

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Editors-in-Chief:
Catherine F. Eubanks - Managing Editor, Adelphi University, United States
Christoph Flückiger - University of Kassel, Germany

Associate Editors:
Jaime Delgadillo - University of Sheffield, UK
Fredrik Falkenström - Linnaeus University, Sweden
Juan Martín Gómez Penedo - University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Andrew A. McAleavey - Weill Cornell Medical College, United States
Hanne Oddli - University of Oslo, Norway
Julian Rubel - University of Osnabruck, Germany

Editorial Assistant:
Dustin Phan - Adelphi University, United States

Advisory Editors:
Katie Aafjes-van Doorn - Yeshiva University, United States
Timothy Anderson - Ohio University, United States
Robbie Babins-Wagner - University of Calgary, USA
Anna Babl - Adelphi University, USA
Jürgen Barth - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Vera Bekes - Yeshiva University, USA
Thomas Berger - University of Bern, Switzerland
Jan Böhnke - University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Tali Boritz - University of Toronto, Canada
James Boswell - University at Albany, United States
Eva-Lotta Brakemeier - University of Greifswald, Germany
Gary M. Burlingame - Brigham Young University, United States
Isabel Caro Gabalda - University of Valencia, Spain
Louis G. Castonguay - Penn State University, United States
Harold Chui - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Michael Constantino - University of Massachusetts, United States
Mick Cooper - Strathclyde University, United Kingdom
Alice Coyne - Case Western Reserve University, United States
Kenneth Critchfield - James Madison University, United States
Paul Crits-Christoph - University of Pennsylvania, United States
Pim Cuijpers - VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AC Del Re - University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States
Melissa De Smet - Tilburg University, Netherlands
Gary M. Diamond - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Giancarlo Dimaggio - Center for Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy - Rome, Italy
Ellen Driessen - Radboud University, The Netherlands
Tracy D. Eells - University of Louisville, United States
Johannes Ehrenthal - University of Cologne, Germany
Iony D. Ezawa - University of Southern California, United States
Barry A. Farber - Columbia University, United States
Javier Fernández-Álvarez - Fundación Aiglé, Argentina
Hadar Fisher - University of Haifa, Israel
Myrna Friedlander - The University at Albany - Suny, United States
Charles J. Gelso - University of Maryland, United States
Simon Goldberg - University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States
Marvin R. Goldfried - Stony Brook University, United States
Miguel Gonçalves - University of Minho, Portugal
Bernard S. Gorman - Adelphi University, United States
Brin Grenyer - University of Wollongong, Australia
Jeremy Halstead - Tenter Hill Cottage, United Kingdom
Sibel Halfon - Istambul Bilgi University, Turkey
Nathan Hansen - Yale University, United States
Armin Hartmann - University of Freiburg, Germany
Robert L. Hatcher - The City University of New York, United States
Laurie Heatherington - Williams College, United States
Erkki Heinonen - National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
Stefan Hofmann - University of Marburg, Germany
Rolf Holmqvist - Linköping University, Sweden
Adam O. Horvath - Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jürgen Hoyer - Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Bill Hoyt - University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States
Marcus Huibers - VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jonathan Huppert - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Shigeru Iwakabe - Ochanomizu University, Japan
Anthony S. Joyce - University of Alberta, Canada
Nikolaos Kazantzis - Melbourne, Australia
Dennis M. Kivlighan - University of Maryland, United States
Yogev Kivity - Bar-Ulan University, Israel
Maria Kleinstäuber - Utah State University - Logan, USA
Lynne Knobloch-Fedders - Marquette University, United States
Gregory Kolden - University of Wisconsin - Madison, United States
Ueli Kramer - University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Mariane Krause - Pontifical Catholic University - Santiago de Chile, Chile
Tobias Krieger - University of Bern, Switzerland
Elisabeth Adams Kvam - University of Oslo, Norway
Peter Lilliengren - Ersta Skondal Hogskola, Sweden
Lauren Lipner - Long Island University-Post Campus, United States
Allison Lockard - Bucknell University, United States
Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces - Indiana University, United States
Patrick Luyten - University of Leuven, Belgium
Kevin Scott McCarthy - Chestnut Hill College, United States
Claudio Martinez - Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Stan Messer - Rutgers University, United States
Nick Midgley - University College London, United Kingdom
Michelle G. Newman - Penn State University, United States
Andrew Page - University of Western Australia, Australia
Katja Petrowski - Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Ioana Podina - University of Bucharest, Romania
Thomas Probst - University of Salzburg, Austria
Marit Rabu - University og Oslo, Norway
Tomáš Rihácek - Masaryk University, Czech Repulic
Jenny Rosendahl - University of Jena, Germany
Felicitas Rost - Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
Andrés Roussos - Argentine University of Enterprise - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Julian Rubel - Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
Thomas Schroder - University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Jan Schürmann-Vengels - Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
Nili Solomonov - Weill Cornell Medical College, United States
Tim Strauman - Duke University, United States
Dan Strunk - Ohio State University, United States
Joshua Swift - Idaho State University, United States
Giorgio A. Tasca - Ottawa Hospital, Canada
Svenja Taubner - University of Heidelberg, Germany
Ladislav Timulak - Trinity College, Ireland
Orya Tishby - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Joel Town - Dalhousie University, Canada
Wolfgang Tschacher - University of Bern, Switzerland
Dana Tzur Bitan - Ariel University, Israel
Andreea Visla - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Jana Volkert - Medical School Berlin, Germany
Michael A. Westerman - New York University, United States
Henny Westra - York University, Canada
Ulrike Willutzki - University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
Hadas Wiseman - University of Haifa, Israel
Markus Wolf - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Hui Xu - Loyola University Chicago, United States
Soo Yeong Youn - Harvard Medical School, USA
Sigal Zilcha-Mano - Adelphi University, United States
Richard Zinbarg - Northwestern University, United States

Former Editors:
2016-2021 Jeffrey A. Hayes - Pennsylvania State University, USA
2013-2018 Wolfgang Lutz - University of Trier, Germany
2010-2015 J. Christopher Muran - Adelphi University, New York, USA
2007-2012 Paulo P. P. Machado - University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
2004-2009 Clara Hill - University of Maryland, USA
2001-2006 Uwe Hentschel†
1995-2000 Bernhard Strauß - University of Jena, Germany
1999-2003 William B. Stiles - Miami University, USA
1994-1998 Robert Elliott - University of Strathclyde, Scotland
1991-1999 Hans H Strupp†
1991-1996 David Shapiro - Leeds University, UK
1991-1996 Klaus Grawe†

^† Deceased