Systemic Research in Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy and Counseling

Chapter 1.The Heidelberg Systemic Research Conferences: Its History, Goals and Outcomes.- Section 1: Innovations in Systemic Research Paradigms.- Chapter 2. Contributions of Systemic Research to the Development of Psychotherapy.- Chapter 3. The Social Present in Psychotherapy: Duration of Nowness in Therapeutic Interaction.- Chapter 4. Significant Moments in a Couple Therapy Session: Towards the Integration of Different Modalities of Analysis.- Chapter 5. Collaborative Family Program Development: Research Methods that Investigate and Foster Resilience and Engagement in Marginalized Communities.- Chapter 6. Resilience of Individuals, Families, Communities and Environments: Mutually Dependent Protective Processes and Complex Systems.- Section 2: Methodological Considerations.- Chapter 7. Relational Research (Trans)forming Practices.- Chapter 8. Discourse Analysis and Systemic Family Therapy Research: The Methodological Contributionof Discursive Psychology.- Chapter 9. From Research on Dialogical Practice to Dialogical Research: Open Dialogue is Based on A Continuous Scientific Analysis.- Chapter 10. Systemic Practitioner Research: Some (Epistemological) Considerations and Examples.- Chapter 11. Family Secrecy - A Challenge for Researchers.- Section 3: Answering Clinical Issues Using Scientific Knowledge and Methods.- Chapter 12. Mentalization in Systemic Therapy and its Empirical Evidence.- Chapter 13. Mindfulness and Compassion-Based Interventions in Relational Contexts.- Chapter 14. What are the Emotions? How Emotion-Focused Therapy Could Inspire Systemic Practice.- Chapter 15. From Reactivity to Relational Empowerment in Couple Therapy: Insights from Interpersonal Neurobiology.- Chapter 16. Relationship Distress: Empirical Evidence for a Relational Needs Perspective.- Chapter 17. Violence in Families: Systemic Practice and Research.- 

Matthias Ochs is a Professor of Psychology and Counseling at the Department of Social Work at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He is also a diploma psychologist, a psychological psychotherapist (licensed by German Psychotherapy Law), a Gestalt therapist, a  family therapist and a certified teacher for Systemic Therapy/counseling. His Diploma and PhD theses were honored with research awards. He was Co-President of the two International Systemic Research Conferences in Heidelberg 2014 and 2017, is Vice-President of the German Association for Systemic and Family Therapy and consultation (DGSF), member of the General Board of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA) and professorial member of the PhD Centre Social work of the official Hessian Universities of Applied Sciences. With Jochen Schweitzer he edited a German systemic research textbook. His current special research interests are: unwanted side effects and negative events in Systemic Therapy/counseling, systems theory/ practice regarding interprofessional/-institutional cooperation and networks, systemic practitioner research, dialogical-systemic practice and the interrelation of social work and psychotherapy.

Maria Borcsa, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Applied Sciences in Nordhausen (UASN), Germany, licensed psychological psychotherapist (CBT), family therapist, trainer and supervisor. She is founding member of the Institute of Social Medicine, Health Care Research and Rehabilitation Sciences at UASN, co-editor of the scientific journals "Systeme" (2001-2014), "Psychotherapie im Dialog" (2007-2019), member of the Editorial Board of  the journals "Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology", "Contemporary Family Therapy", advisory editor of "Family Process", associate editor of "Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy", and founding editor of the EFTA Family Therapy Book Series. She has been