Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome (RIPPPO) is an online, open-access, peer reviewed journal published by the Italian Area Group of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR Italy Area Group). Its aim is to promoting a fruitful communication between the Italian and International communities, enriching clinicians and researchers mutual collaboration. It welcomes high quality articles from any part of the world, concerning a variety of topics (e.g., psychotherapy process and outcome, diagnosis and assessment, psychopathology etc.), with different formats (e.g., reviews, empirical studies, methodological works, clinical studies) and from different epistemological, theoretical and methodological perspectives of the contemporary research in psychotherapy.


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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.

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