The Society for Psychotherapy Research Student Services proudly presents the next webinar for early career scholars. The presenter will be dr. Wolfgang Lutz, professor in Clinical Psychology at Universität Trier. This webinar will be moderated by dr. John Ogrodniczuk.

This webinar is available for people that are in the early phase of their career, including undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs and assistant professors free of charge.

This is an early announcement, an invitation will follow two weeks before the event.

Investigating change on a macro, meso and micro level: a three level psychotherapy research program – dr. Wolfgang Lutz – 8 September 2011 18:00 CET (12:00 EST)

In this presentation a research program on psychotherapeutic change will be presented, which has it’s focus on investigating change processes as well as progress and outcome on different levels of the psychotherapeutic endeavour. Furthermore, the integration of this research program within a clinical training program will be presented.

The macro-level is dealing with change on a services research level and covers topics as the modelling and prediction of individual patient change based on initial and early change information as well as feedback and therapist differences. This research area is also widely known as patient-focused research.

The meso level investigates change processes in terms of specific patterns of change. Those linear and non-linear change patterns are investigated also in relation to in-session change processes before and after discontinuous change happens. The assessments on that level are based on session progress and outcome reports as well as ratings of video-taped sessions.

Finally, the micro- level of change investigates change processes based on micro-interventions - a short technique specific intervention (e.g. reframing or relaxation) - with the goal to identify relevant change bits on a psychometric as well as psychobiological (EEG) level.