ABSTRACT
Many former SPR presidents have emphasized the problematic relationship between research and practice (e.g., Greenberg, 1991), yet the relationship between psychotherapy training and research has remained a back seat topic over the past 20 years (with some marginal exceptions, e.g., Aveline, 2005b). Empirical evidence about psychotherapy training has been summarized in a handful of review articles during the last decades. These reviews have uniformly stressed the urgent need to promote training research and to organize psychotherapy training according to evidence based principles (e.g., Binder, 1993; Boswell & Castonguay, 2007; Laireiter & Botermans, 2005; Matarazzo & Petterson, 1986).
