Research and Training

Another interest of the lab is psychotherapy training. In particular, we are interested in identifying ways to improve training during and after graduate school, as well as to integrate research and training at different phases of psychotherapists’ careers.

You will find here links for publications related to an integrative perspective on psychotherapy training: Boswell et al., 2010; Boswell, Castonguay, & Pincus, 2009; Boswell & Castonguay, 2007; Castonguay, 2005; Castonguay, 2000.

 

You will find here a link to a publication on training implications that we have derived from research on deterioration in psychotherapy: Castonguay et al., 2010.

You will also find above a description of the practice research network (PRN) infrastructure that we have helped develop in order to foster a seamless integration of training and research needs of graduate students in the adult clinical program at Penn State. Also included above are publications presenting research conducted by the members of our lab within this PRN infrastructure and as part of their graduate career (e.g., masters thesis, dissertation).

Our future research directions on training, in the Penn State clinic and other PRN infrastructures, will be influenced by the upcoming series of the Penn State Conferences on the Process of Change. These conferences are described on the “Psychotherapy Expertise” page.

Full references are available from Dr. Castonguay’s CV.