1. What have the authors contributed in "Looking both ways author final 2015" ?
The authors then look forward to the next 25 years, suggesting that it would be promising to focus on three areas: ( a ) systematic theory-building research, ( b ) renewed attention to fine-grained study of therapist techniques, and ( c ) politically expedient research on the outcomes of marginalized or emerging therapies.. The authors begin with the disclaimer that although they have all served as editors for a great number and variety of manuscripts for Psychotherapy Research, the three of us do not by any means represent the journal 's range of research and scholarship.. The journal has addressed many important topics that the authors do not consider in this article, and future researchers will be concerned with many topics that they do not feature.. The authors do not here attempt a comprehensive or balanced review of the past and future of psychotherapy research.. Instead, the comments that follow represent their personal perspectives, melded a bit by this joint assignment.. The authors have also enjoyed intertwined careers, beginning with a symposium at the 1980 American Psychological Association convention organized by Alvin Mahrer ( 1980 ), who invited the three of us to speak to a title that presaged their present assignment: Psychotherapy process research: A preview of the next decade.. The authors each began their careers conducting research in verbal process coding ( e. g., Elliott, 1985 ; Elliott et al., 1987 ; Hill, 1978 ; Stiles, 1979 ) and remain interested in process research and process-outcome relations.. In this article, the authors look both ways as they step into the journal 's next quarter century.. Then the authors look ahead, suggesting three themes that seem particularly promising to us.
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