Psychotherapy

Prior to submission, please carefully read and follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may be returned without review.

Submission

To submit to the editorial office of Jesse Owen, PhD, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission portal Microsoft Word (.docx) or LaTex (.tex) as a zip file with an accompanied Portable Document Format (.pdf) of the manuscript file.

Starting June 15, 2020, all new manuscripts submitted should be prepared according to the 7^th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7^th edition are available.

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Jesse Owen, PhD, Editor
Department of Counseling Psychology
University of Denver
19999 E. Evans Ave.
Denver, CO 80208

General correspondence may be directed to the editor's office.

Psychotherapy publishes a wide variety of articles relevant to the field of psychotherapy. We strive to foster interactions among training, practice, theory, and research since all are essential to psychotherapy.

We welcome the widest scope of orientations to inform our readers. Authors are asked to submit theoretical contributions, research studies, novel ideas, the controversial, as well as examples of practice-relevant issues that would stimulate other theorists, researchers, and/or practitioners.

Manuscripts submitted to this Journal must have a very clear statement on the implications for psychotherapy, as well as use psychotherapy terminology. Thus, we are most interested in manuscripts that are specifically related to the therapeutic setting and treatment interventions in an applied manner. As such, papers would need to have very clear and accessible implications for therapists in applied clinical practice.

Directly related to the main aims of this Journal we also encourage submission of articles to a pair of ongoing special series. The first being Practice Review articles that summarize extant research in a clinically accessible manner. The second, parallel in purpose to the Practice Review articles, are Evidence-Based Case Studies that integrate verbatim clinical case material with standardized measures of process and outcome evaluated at different times across treatment.

When clinical case material is reported, authors are required to state in writing (footnote or text in manuscript) which criteria they have used to comply with the ethics code (i.e. specific informed consent, de-identification or disguise), and if de-identification or disguise is used how and where it has been applied.

More information on both of these types of articles can be found on the Psychotherapy Author and Reviewer Resources web page . This web page also contains links to several different resources to help authors conduct their research, including free statistical programs, as well as a range of formatting aids to help authors present their findings.

The average total length of manuscripts accepted for publication in the journal is 25–35 pages, all inclusive. Authors of manuscripts with greater length will need to justify the additional space in the their cover letter to the editor.

Brief Reports are published and should be no longer than 20 pages, including text, references, tables and figures, but not abstract or title page.

Manuscript preparation

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual).

Review APA's Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines before submitting your article.

In order to permit anonymous review, all authors' names, their affiliations, and contact information should be removed from the manuscripts itself and included in the cover letter to the editor. This cover letter should also address any necessary APA publication policy or ethical principles that may exist (i.e. confidentiality of clinical case material, informed consent, overlapping use of prior published data set, etc).

Please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual. Additional guidance on APA Style is available on the APA Style website.

Authors of manuscripts should incorporate recommendations in the updated APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research before submitting.

These standards offer ways to improve transparency in reporting to ensure that readers have the information necessary to evaluate the quality of the research and to facilitate collaboration and replication. For further resources, including flowcharts, visit the JARS website.

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Display equations

We strongly encourage you to use MathType (third-party software) or Equation Editor 3.0 (built into pre-2007 versions of Word) to construct your equations, rather than the equation support that is built into Word 2007 and Word 2010. Equations composed with the built-in Word 2007/Word 2010 equation support are converted to low-resolution graphics when they enter the production process and must be rekeyed by the typesetter, which may introduce errors.

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Use Equation Editor 3.0 or MathType only for equations or for formulas that cannot be produced as Word text using the Times or Symbol font.

Computer code

Because altering computer code in any way (e.g., indents, line spacing, line breaks, page breaks) during the typesetting process could alter its meaning, we treat computer code differently from the rest of your article in our production process. To that end, we request separate files for computer code.

In online supplemental material

We request that runnable source code be included as supplemental material to the article. For more information, visit Supplementing Your Article With Online Material.

In the text of the article

If you would like to include code in the text of your published manuscript, please submit a separate file with your code exactly as you want it to appear, using Courier New font with a type size of 8 points. We will make an image of each segment of code in your article that exceeds 40 characters in length. (Shorter snippets of code that appear in text will be typeset in Courier New and run in with the rest of the text.) If an appendix contains a mix of code and explanatory text, please submit a file that contains the entire appendix, with the code keyed in 8-point Courier New.

Tables

Use Word's Insert Table function when you create tables. Using spaces or tabs in your table will create problems when the table is typeset and may result in errors.

Author contributions statements using CRediT

The APA Publication Manual (7th ed.) stipulates that "authorship encompasses…not only persons who do the writing but also those who have made substantial scientific contributions to a study" In the spirit of transparency and openness, Psychotherapy has adopted the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to describe each author's individual contributions to the work. CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to a manuscript.

Submitting authors will be asked to identify the contributions of all authors at initial submission according to this taxonomy. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the CRediT designations will be published as an Author Contributions Statement in the author note of the final article. All authors should have reviewed and agreed to their individual contribution(s) before submission.

CRediT includes 14 contributor roles, as described below:

• Conceptualization : Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
• Data curation : Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
• Formal analysis : Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Funding acquisition : Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
• Investigation : ​Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
• Methodology : Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Project administration : Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
• Resources : Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
• Software : Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
• Supervision : Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
• Validation : Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
• Visualization : Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
• Writing – original draft : ​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
• Writing – review & editing : Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision—including pre- or post-publication stages.

Authors can claim credit for more than one contributor role, and the same role can be attributed to more than one author.

Academic writing and English language editing services

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Use of such service is not mandatory for publication in an APA journal. Use of one or more of these services does not guarantee selection for peer review, manuscript acceptance, or preference for publication in any APA journal.

Submitting supplemental materials

APA can place supplemental materials online, available via the published article in the APA PsycArticles^® database. Please see Supplementing Your Article With Online Material for more details.

Abstract and keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a separate page. After the abstract, please supply up to five keywords or brief phrases.

Clinical impact statement

Psychotherapy requires authors of all manuscripts to submit a short statement, written in conversational English, that summarizes the article's findings and why they are important to clinical practice.

This article feature allows authors great control over how their work will be interpreted and discovered by a number of audiences (e.g., practitioners, policy makers, news media).

Your clinical impact statement should appear in your initial manuscript .doc file, below the abstract.

Please structure it as follows:

• Question: What is the applied clinical practice question this paper is hoping to address?
• Findings: How would clinicians meaningfully use the primary findings of this paper in their applied practice?
• Meaning: What are the key conclusions and implications for future clinical practice and research?
• Next Steps: Based on the primary findings and limitations of this paper, what are future directions to be explored in clinical practice and research?

Each section should be no more than one short sentence in length.

Please refer to the Guidance for Translational Abstracts and Public Significance Statements page to help you write this text.

References

List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the References section.

Examples of basic reference formats:

• Journal Article:
  Hughes, G., Desantis, A., & Waszak, F. (2013). Mechanisms of intentional binding and sensory attenuation: The role of temporal prediction, temporal control, identity prediction, and motor prediction. Psychological Bulletin, 139, 133–151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0028566
• Authored Book:
  Rogers, T. T., & McClelland, J. L. (2004). Semantic cognition: A parallel distributed processing approach. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Chapter in an Edited Book:
  Gill, M. J., & Sypher, B. D. (2009). Workplace incivility and organizational trust. In P. Lutgen-Sandvik & B. D. Sypher (Eds.), Destructive organizational communication: Processes, consequences, and constructive ways of organizing (pp. 53–73). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.

Figures

Preferred formats for graphics files are TIFF and JPG, and preferred format for vector-based files is EPS. Graphics downloaded or saved from web pages are not acceptable for publication. Multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) should be assembled into one file. When possible, please place symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.

Resolution

• All color line art and halftones: 300 DPI
• Black and white line tone and gray halftone images: 600 DPI

Line weights

• Adobe Photoshop images
  • Color (RGB, CMYK) images: 2 pixels
  • Grayscale images: 4 pixels
• Adobe Illustrator Images
  • Stroke weight: 0.5 points

APA offers authors the option to publish their figures online in color without the costs associated with print publication of color figures.

The same caption will appear on both the online (color) and print (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure can be understood in both formats, authors should add alternative wording (e.g., “the red (dark gray) bars represent”) as needed.

For authors who prefer their figures to be published in color both in print and online, original color figures can be printed in color at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay:

• $900 for one figure
• An additional $600 for the second figure
• An additional $450 for each subsequent figure

Permissions

Authors of accepted papers must obtain and provide to the editor on final acceptance all necessary permissions to reproduce in print and electronic form any copyrighted work, including test materials (or portions thereof), photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments).

On advice of counsel, APA may decline to publish any image whose copyright status is unknown.

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Publication policies

For full details on publication policies, including use of Artificial Intelligence tools, please see APA Publishing Policies.

APA policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by two or more publications.

See also APA Journals^® Internet Posting Guidelines.

APA requires authors to reveal any possible conflict of interest in the conduct and reporting of research (e.g., financial interests in a test or procedure, funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug research).

• Download Full Disclosure of Interests Form (PDF, 41KB)

Ethical Principles

It is a violation of APA Ethical Principles to publish "as original data, data that have been previously published" (Standard 8.13).

In addition, APA Ethical Principles specify that "after research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release" (Standard 8.14).

APA expects authors to adhere to these standards. Specifically, APA expects authors to have their data available throughout the editorial review process and for at least 5 years after the date of publication.

Authors are required to state in writing that they have complied with APA ethical standards in the treatment of their sample, human or animal, or to describe the details of treatment.

• Download Certification of Compliance With APA Ethical Principles Form (PDF, 26KB)

The APA Ethics Office provides the full Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct electronically on its website in HTML, PDF, and Word format. You may also request a copy by emailing or calling the APA Ethics Office (202-336-5930). You may also read "Ethical Principles," December 1992, American Psychologist, Vol. 47, pp. 1597–1611.

Other information

See APA’s Publishing Policies page for more information on publication policies, including information on author contributorship and responsibilities of authors, author name changes after publication, the use of generative artificial intelligence, funder information and conflict-of-interest disclosures, duplicate publication, data publication and reuse, and preprints.

Visit the Journals Publishing Resource Center for more resources for writing, reviewing, and editing articles for publishing in APA journals.

Editor

Jesse Owen, PhD
University of Denver, United States

Associate editors

Harold Chui, PhD
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Michael J. Constantino, PhD
University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

D. Martin Kivlighan III, PhD
University of Iowa, United States

Rayna D. Markin, PhD
Villanova University, United States

Andrés E. Pérez-Rojas, PhD
Indiana University - Bloomington, United States

Editorial board

David C. Atkins, PhD
Lyssn.io, United States

John S. Auerbach, PhD
North Florida South Georgia Veterans Health System, United States

Jeffrey E. Barnett, PsyD, ABPP
Loyola University Maryland, United States

Sebastian M. Barr, PhD
Cambridge Health Alliance & Harvard Medical School, United States

Theodore T. Bartholomew, PhD
Scripps College, United States

Amy C. Blume-Marcovici, PsyD
Reed College Health and Counseling Center, United States

James F. Boswell, PhD
University at Albany, State University of New York

Matteo Bugatti, PhD
Oregon State University, United States

Linda Campbell, PhD
University of Georgia, United States

Jeremy J. Coleman, PhD
University of Utah, United States

Lillian Comas-Díaz, PhD
Private Practice, Washington, DC, United States

Alice E. Coyne, PhD
American University, United States

Don E. Davis, PhD
Georgia State University, United States

Cirleen DeBlaere, PhD
Georgia State University, United States

Marc J. Diener, PhD
Long Island University-Post, United States

Raymond DiGiuseppe, PhD
St. John’s University, United States

Ulrike Dinger, DSc, MD
Heidelberg University, Germany

Ellen Driessen, PhD
Radboud University, The Netherlands

Joanna M. Drinane, PhD
University of Utah, United States

Tracy D. Eells, PhD
University of Louisville, United States

Elizabeth H. Eustis, PhD
Boston University, United States

Todd J. Farchione, PhD
Boston University, United States

Christoph Flückiger, PhD
University of Zurich, Switzerland

J. Christopher Fowler, PhD
Houston Methodist Behavioral Health, United States

Charles J. Gelso, PhD
University of Maryland, United States

Mary Beth Connolly Gibbons, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, United States

Melissa K. Goates-Jones, PhD
Brigham Young University, United States

Simon B. Goldberg, PhD
University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States

Robert Hatcher, PhD
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States

Jeffrey A. Hayes, PhD
Pennsylvania State University, United States

Paul L. Hewitt, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Joshua N. Hook, PhD
University of North Texas, United States

Zac E. Imel, PhD
University of Utah, United States

Shigeru Iwakabe, PhD
Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan

Dennis M. Kivlighan Jr. , PhD
University of Maryland, United States

Lynne M. Knobloch-Fedders, PhD
Marquette University, United States

Shoshana Krohner, PhD
The New School for Social Research, United States

Michael J. Lambert, PhD
Private Practice, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Debbiesiu L. Lee, PhD
University of Miami, United States

Bruce S. Liese, PhD
University of Kansas, United States

Wolfgang Lutz, PhD
University of Trier, Germany

Patrick Luyten, PhD
University of Leuven, Belgium

Jonathan J. Mohr, PhD
University of Maryland, United States

Theresa B. Moyers, PhD
University of New Mexico, United States

John Ogrodniczuk, PhD
University of British Columbia, Canada

Julieta Olivera, PhD
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Conicet, Argentina

David W. Pantalone, PhD
University of Massachusetts, Boston, United States

Seth R. Pitman, PhD
Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA

Emma Freetly Porter, PhD
Fordham University, United States

Kelley Quirk, PhD
University of Denver, United States

Robert J. Reese, PhD
Auburn University, United States

Tomáš Řiháček, PhD
Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD
University of Washington, United States

Steven J. Sandage, PhD
Boston University, United States

Harry J. Sivec, PhD
Best Practices in Schizophrenia Treatment (BeST) Center, Northeast Ohio Medical University, United States

Jenelle Slavin-Mulford, PhD
Augusta University, United States

Michelle B. Stein, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, United States

George Stricker, PhD
American School of Professional Psychology, Argosy University, Northern Virginia, United States

Joshua Swift, PhD
Idaho State University, United States

Karen W. Tao, PhD
University of Utah, United States

Giorgio A. Tasca, PhD
University of Ottawa, Canada

Heather Thompson-Brenner, PhD
Boston University, United States

Joel M. Town, DClinPsy
Dalhousie University, Canada

Terence J. G. Tracey, PhD
Arizona State University, United States

Pål Ulvenes, PhD
Modum Bad Psychiatric Center, Norway

Paul L. Wachtel, PhD
City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center, United States

Erin F. Ward-Ciesielski, PhD
Boston University, United States

C. Edward Watkins, Jr., PhD
University of North Texas, United States

Jeanne C. Watson, PhD
University of Toronto, Canada

Henny A. Westra, PhD
York University, Canada

Melanie M. Wilcox, PhD
University at Albany, United States

Elizabeth Nutt Williams, PhD
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, United States

Stephanie Winkeljohn Black, PhD
Penn State Harrisburg, United States

Susan S. Woodhouse, PhD
Lehigh University, United States

Heidi A. Zetzer, PhD
University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

Sigal Zilcha-Mano, PhD
University of Haifa, Israel

Jeffrey Zimmerman, PhD
Private Practice, New York, United States

Sharon Ziv-Beiman, PhD
Academic College of Tel Aviv, Yaffo, Israel

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• Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Skills and Methods:

  Special issue of APA’s journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 60, No. 3, September 2023. This special issue aims to help psychotherapists implement skills/methods in ways that optimize psychotherapy outcomes and to assist trainers in teaching them.

• Addressing HIV in Psychotherapy:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 57, No. 1, March 2020. Psychotherapy research on people with HIV (PWH) lags behind public health. In an effort to begin addressing this gap, this special issue includes 13 articles on psychotherapy and HIV, organized in five sections: (1) general guidelines on psychotherapy practice for PWH; (2) addressing HIV stigma in psychotherapy process and techniques; (3) sexual functioning and romantic relationships; (4) psychotherapy treatments for specific disorders that frequently co-occur with HIV; (5) psychotherapy interventions for specific populations.

• APA Clinical Practice Guidelines for PTSD:

  This special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 56, No. 3, September 2019, published jointly with a companion issue in Practice Innovations, features the APA Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

• Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Relationships III:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 55, No. 4, December 2018. The articles discuss facets of the psychotherapy relationship and their relation to treatment outcome.

• Feedback in Group Psychotherapy:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 55, No. 2, June 2018.The articles provide quantitative and qualitative evidence to support the use of feedback monitoring to identify at-risk group members and to better understand what interventions may be most useful to group members over time.

• Cultural Processes in Psychotherapy:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 55, No. 1, March 2018. The articles highlight both the clinical and research aspects of the cultural processes in psychotherapy from a variety of different theoretical orientations, perspectives, and methodologies.

• Psychotherapy Termination:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 54, No. 1, March 2017. Includes articles about both the clinical practice and research aspects of the psychotherapy termination process from a variety of different theoretical orientations, perspectives, and methodologies.

• Couple and Group Psychotherapy:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 53, No. 4, December 2016. Includes articles about various forms of couple and group psychotherapy in a variety of settings and problems.

• Clinical Errors:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 53, No. 3, September 2016. Includes articles about errors rooted in clinical and supervision processes; group psychotherapy; specific treatments; diagnosing specific disorders; and improving clinical work through routine outcome monitoring.

• Eating Disorders and Psychotherapy:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 53, No. 2, June 2016. Includes articles about a range of psychotherapeutic techniques and their use in eating disorder treatment, as well as separate sections about relationship-focused therapy for bulimia and binge eating and improving psychotherapy for anorexia nervosa.

• Progress Monitoring and Feedback:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 52, No. 4, December 2015. The articles present a variety of systems that involve routine outcome monitoring and the provision of feedback to therapists and/or patients with the goal of improving the quality of mental health care.

• Therapeutic Relationship:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 51, No. 3, September 2014. The issue is divided into two sections: Relational Foundations of Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Alliance.

• Clinical Process:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 50, No. 3, September 2013. The articles describe behaviors or techniques that help stimulate Clinical Process, shape its content, or influence its direction and focus.

• Training and Professional Development:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 50, No. 2, June 2013. Includes articles about the research training environment; the phase model of change; self-rated professional qualities; trainee self-efficacy; attachment and the supervisory alliance; multicultural case conceptualization; and Internet-based training.

• Psychotherapy Outcome:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 50, No. 1, March 2013. Seminal articles from Volume 1 of the journal are reprinted, followed by papers by current authors addressing the progress on psychotherapy outcome research in the past 50 years.

• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 49, No. 3, September 2012. Includes articles about psychodynamic psychotherapy outcomes; therapist actions and the therapeutic bond; dynamic psychotherapy treatment for depression; and the dynamic research interview.

• Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Relationships II:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 48, No. 4, December 2011. Includes articles about therapist self-disclosure, the psychotherapeutic relationship, and the therapeutic alliance.

• Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Relationships:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 48, No. 1, March 2011. Includes articles about alliance in various therapeutic settings; cohesion in group therapy; empathy; goal consensus; client feedback; and countertransference.

• Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Psychotherapy:

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychotherapy, Vol. 43, No. 4, Winter 2006. Includes articles about cultural competence and psychotherapy; acculturative family distancing; cultural accommodation; affirmative psychotherapy; integration of ethnic psychology into psychotherapy; psychoanalytic therapy; diversity factors in case conceptualization; multicultural competency; treating traumatized refugees; and culturally adapted mental health intervention.

• The Interplay of Techniques and the Therapeutic Relationship in Psychotherapy:

  Special issue of the APA journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. 42, No. 4, December 2005. Includes articles about the role of relationship and technique in therapeutic change; client involvement; cognitive–behavioral therapy; behavior therapy; psychotherapy for adults with Asperger Syndrome; psychodynamic psychotherapy for avoidant personality disorder; alliance-focused treatment for personality disorders; and evaluating alliance-focused interventions for potential treatment failures.

Inclusive reporting standards

• Bias-free language and community-driven language guidelines (required)
• Author contribution roles using CRediT (required)
• Data sharing and data availability statements (recommended)
• Impact statements (required)
• Participant sample descriptions (recommended)

More information on this journal’s reporting standards is listed under the submission guidelines tab.

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ORCID reviewer recognition

Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) Reviewer Recognition provides a visible and verifiable way for journals to publicly credit reviewers without compromising the confidentiality of the peer-review process. This journal has implemented the ORCID Reviewer Recognition feature in Editorial Manager, meaning that reviewers can be recognized for their contributions to the peer-review process.

Masked peer review

This journal offers masked peer review (where both the authors’ and reviewers’ identities are not known to the other). Research has shown that masked peer review can help reduce implicit bias against traditionally female names or early-career scientists with smaller publication records (Budden et al., 2008; Darling, 2015).

Editor Spotlight

• Read an interview with Editor Jesse Owen, PhD

Resources

• Psychotherapy Author and Reviewer Resources

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Obituaries

• Obituary: Eugene Gendlin (1926–2017)
• Obituary: Leigh McCullough (1945–2012)