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Psychotherapy Expertise

The Penn State Conferences on the Process of Change are a series of bi-annual meetings that Louis Castonguay and Clara Hill have been organizing since 2001. The first three sets of these conferences focused on insight, corrective experiences, and therapist effects, respectively. Each of these series of conferences has led to a book (Castonguay & Hill, 2007, 2012, 2017). 

You will find here links for the introduction and conclusion chapters for these three books.

Corrective Experiences: Corrective experience- Introduction; Corrective experience- Conclusion

 

Insight: Insight- Introduction; Insight-Conclusion

 

Therapist Effects: Therapist Effects: Introduction; Therapist Effects: Integration and Conclusions

The conferences have involved a large contingent of highly respected and influential researchers from North America, as well as Europe. They serve as opportunities to stimulate and exchange ideas, clarify or sharpen thoughts, generate new ways of thinking, and debate alternative views with the ultimate aim of building conceptual and empirical projects conducted by members between meetings. Each of the books that have resulted from these conferences showcase these innovative projects, and then present the consensus reached by the group in terms of defining, understanding, and investigating the specific theme focused on during the particular series of conferences.

These conferences have guided, and will continue to guide many projects that have been conducted in the lab.

You will find here a link of the chapters that we have contributed to each of the books derived from the conferences: Castonguay et al., 2012; Grosse Holtforth et al., 2006; Youn et al., 2017.

 

You will also find here a link to some of the conceptual and empirical efforts that were generated by the conferences and that we conducted in the lab: McAleavey & Castonguay, 2014.

In alphabetical order, these people were: Tim Anderson, Jacques Barber, James Boswell, Franz Caspar, Michael Constantino, Barry Farber, Charles Gelso, Marvin Goldfried, Jeff Hayes, Martin Grosse Holtforth, Sarah Knox, David Kraus, Michael Lambert, Wolfgang Lutz, Chris Muran, Michelle Newman, Jeremy Safran, Bill Stiles, Bruce Wampold, & Abe Wolf.

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