Announcements

  • Special Issue on NEW PERSPECTIVES IN THE STUDY OF SUICIDE RISK: IMPLICATIONS FOR ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT

    2024-01-23

    GUEST EDITORS

    Elsa Ronningstam, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.

    Maurizio Pompili, M.D., Ph.D., Full Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Mental Health and Sense Organs (NESMOS), Sant'Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

    Annalisa Tanzilli, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

    Riccardo Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

    Introduction

    According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2023), suicide is a leading mental health problem worldwide and the fourth most common cause of death among people aged 15 and 29 years and the second cause of death in the Western Countries in the young age. For many decades, research on this phenomenon has focused on identifying specific risk factors involved in promoting suicidal behavior. In more recent years, an approach has emerged that conceives of suicide as the potential outcome of a complex and articulated process of suicidality including both functions and intentions, which describes the evolution of certain psychological states beginning with a condition of psychache, a condition of unbearable and inescapable emotional triggering the suicidal ideation. In this perspective...

  • Special Issue on PSYCHOTHERAPISTS’ DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING EFFECTIVENESS

    2023-11-16

    GUEST EDITORS

    David Orlinsky, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, USA
    Erkki Heinonen, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
    Irene Messina, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Universitas Mercatorum, Rome, Italy

    Introduction

    Psychotherapy reserch has identified therapist effects as important factors leading to therapy success. Consistently, in the last two decades there has been a growing interest in research on psychotherapists’ development and psychotherapy training effectiveness. In this special issue, Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome (RIPPPO) is inviting manuscripts which provide salient research findings and/or theoretical reflection on psychotherapists’/psychotherapy trainees’ development, psychotherapy training effectiveness, supervision and personal therapy.