The European Chapter of SPR is honored to announce further online activities primarily designed to support young researchers affiliated with SPR (all chapters). In April 2020, the planned EU-SPR methods workshop in Dundee (UK), one of the signature in-person events of our chapter, had to be canceled due to the pandemic. We are now very lucky that all speakers from the Dundee workshops join in to deliver their workshops and talks online: the result promises to be a top-quality level package on current psychotherapy research methods, offered by leading experts of our field, which no young SPR researcher would want to miss. Modules can be booked either separately, or, as we encourage, as an overall package. Priority for attendance is given to young researchers from all SPR Chapters who sign up for the overall package.  Deadline for registration for the overall package is January 18, 2021.

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Abstract

The Evidence-Based Treatment movement promotes an array of methodological standards and procedures to safeguard the quality of treatments. Default psychotherapy research uses quantitative symptom measures to asses symptom development pre-to-post treatment in (randomized) controlled settings. In this workshop, we go back to the very basis of conducting psychotherapy research, by scrutinizing how these default methods and procedures produce ‘the data’ that we as researchers take as the basis of evidence generation. In this, we will take ‘the numbers’ as words in a clinical story and we follow the stories on their way to become ‘the evidence’. 

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