Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy

Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy

http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu/

Publisher: Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
and the Rutgers University Libraries

Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy (PCSP) is a peer-reviewed,
open-access journal and database. It provides innovative, quantitative and
qualitative knowledge about psychotherapy process and outcome, for both
researchers and practitioners.

Goals of the journal:

1) To generate a growing database of systematic, rigorous, and peer-reviewed
therapy case studies across a variety of theoretical approaches. These cases
can serve:

A) as a source of guidance on individual cases for practicing clinicians.

B) as a research base for qualitative and quantitative cross-case analysis
by researchers and theorists. This research base can be employed (a) to
derive and test theory-based hypotheses about therapy process and change
mechanisms; (b) to develop pragmatic, evidence-based, "best practice"
guidelines for addressing particular types of cases; (c) to explore
effective ways to combine qualitative and quantitative information; and (d)
to compare, contrast, and/or integrate different theoretical approaches as
applied to the same clinical facts in individual cases.

C) as a way to enhance the knowledge value of cases employed in
quantitatively oriented therapy research involving either groups of therapy
patients (e.g., efficacy research) or single-case research designs.

D) as a resource in therapist training, for both students, academic
educators, and supervisors.

2) To pilot-test the special advantages of online, case study journals in
applied psychology generally by exemplifying in detail their ability to make
large amounts of qualitative and quantitative, peer-reviewed information
particularly timely, accessible, searchable, and pragmatically and
theoretically valuable.

3) To act as a vehicle for progress in therapy case-study method through the
process of example, critical dialogue, and cross-case analysis.

ISSN: 1553-0124

Authors can upload their papers, as well as data sets, research instruments,
and source documents through the journal's Submissions section.

Editor-in-Chief:

Daniel B. Fishman, PhD
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ 

Email: dfish96198@aol.com

Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF and DjVu format.

Current Issue: Volume 1 Number 2 2005

Date: 16 September 2005