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Call for papers
Call for papers
One or many sciences for psychotherapy: what constitutes evidence?
This title serves as the overarching theme for the conference this year; we aim to inspire contributions that address the issue of what constitutes evidence in psychotherapy. Many in our field strongly support the idea that there is only one science for all areas of enquiry, whereas many others challenge that idea in favour of a multiplicity of scientific approaches. Nobody disputes, however, the necessity of building our practice on some sort of evidence. The questions that contributors are invited to address are therefore: What does evidence mean in psychotherapy? Does any theoretical persuasion produce its own specific evidence, or is there some kind of superordinate evidence? Is the evidence brought about by experiments and measures the only one that deserves to be called scientific, or can clinical practice generate a scientific evidence in its own right? What has an integrative approach to say about evidence? Contributors may also wish to consider other topics related to the broad theme of science and evidence. You are also welcome to submit presentations that are not directly related to the conference theme but bear on the larger theme of psychotherapy integration.
English will be the official language of the Conference. There will be simultaneous interpreting in plenary sessions (friday morning, saturday morning, sunday morning). Panels and workshops will be in the afternoons (friday and saturday) and should be in english or italian. In some cases there will be consecutive interpreting.
To submit a contribute, please use the following links.
Dateline: 15 dicembre 2009.
