Psychotherapy and psychotherapy research: Quo vadis?

General systems research: quo vadis?

This yearbook in its new format is an extensional definition of progress in general systems research. The papers represent a selection of the key material published in 1978-1979 over a wide range of systems topics. This paper complements them as a collective introduction to the topics rather than a set of individual introductions to the papers. It certainly does not encompass them, for it would...

Implications of psychotherapy research for psychotherapy training.

This review article considers implications of psychotherapy research for psychotherapy training. It considers 8 themes that characterize the research literature. The themes involve outcome findings, common factors, empirically supported therapies, patient treatment matches, therapy manuals and practice guidelines, brief therapies, combinations of medication and psychotherapy, and group therapie...

Research competency and specialist registration: Quo vadis ?

The requirement of 'research completion' as necessary for specialist registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has recently been subject to legal action, with a court order potentially shifting requirements beyond those envisaged by the HPCSA. The research requirement is congruent with National Department of Health strategy in this regard, i.e. the strengthening o...

Quo vadis: Scandinavian Information Systems Development Research?

Quo Vadis?

This paper elaborates an aspirations–capabilities framework to advance our understanding of human mobility. Arguing in favour of conceptual eclecticism to bridge disciplinary and paradigmatic divides, the paper conceives migration as an intrinsic part of broader processes of social transformation and development. In this perspective, theoretical assumptions are seen as contextualised statements...