Resuming Publication of an Established Journal, Part 3
In 2016, after 70 years of publishing, the American Journal of Psychotherapy suspended operations while its parent organization, the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, underwent the legal process of formal dissolution.
When operations were suspended, several papers had been accepted and were awaiting publication.
The American Psychiatric Association is proud to be the new publisher of the American Journal of Psychotherapy, helmed by Editor Holly A. Swartz, M.D., from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Publication has resumed with volume 71, which will encompass four issues in 2018 and feature the previously accepted papers throughout the year. Issue 3 includes the following articles:
C. Edward Watkins, Jr., Ph.D., describes the “Supervision Pyramid,” a meta-model of the supervisor’s contribution to the experience and outcomes of supervision. The supervision pyramid consists of three commonalities—supervisor skills and interventions, the supervisory relationship, and the supervisor’s person and personhood—that converge to stimulate supervisee learning and relearning and client improvement and symptom reduction.
Christophe Panichelli, M.D., et al. discuss how humor is associated with positive outcomes in individual psychotherapy, reporting that among psychotherapy clients who attended at least 10 sessions, the link between humor and therapy effectiveness remained significant in subgroups of clients with more severe illness, even though these clients reported less humor in their therapy sessions.
Katharine S. Adams, Ph.D., et al. discuss the relationship of Christian beliefs to attitudes toward people with mental illness, finding that consistent with research on other stigmatized groups, religious fundamentalism, and not Christian orthodoxy, was associated with more negative attitudes toward individuals with mental illness.
Aaron Kivisto, Ph.D., and Katherine Kivisto, Ph.D., surveyed psychologists who had experienced stalking, threatening, or harassing behavior by a client and found that risk management effectiveness varied by client personality organization and motivation and that the most commonly used responses were least effective.
It is our hope, as we restore the American Journal of Psychotherapy to its rightful prominence, that those who share our interest in promoting psychotherapy as a critical component of care support the journal in the following ways:
Delve into the archives: content from 2007 to 2016 is now freely available online at the journal’s new website, with some articles available online for the first time ever.
Submit a paper: we invite a broad range of perspectives from all psychotherapy disciplines and welcome case reports, review articles, and research articles that will guide and shape clinical practice.
Share your expertise as a peer reviewer: individuals interested in reviewing for the journal are invited to write to the journal’s editorial office at [email protected] to request to be added to the reviewer database.
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Follow the journal on Twitter (@APAPubPsychthpy).
Thank you for reading, and we welcome your engagement.
