title: [Empirical psychotherapy research in Argentina. Current situation, methods and problems].
abstract: This article presents a brief report about empirical psychotherapy research in Argentina. Specifically, it analyzes some of the problems related to doing psychological treatments research in our country, beyond the theoretical background and preferences associated to the research. This article also gives an overview on some of the psychotherapy research techniques that are being used in the mentioned environment. For this study a total of 26 on going works were analyzed, to identify some of its main characteristics, and to define the key themes and research procedures used in Argentina. In order to exemplify the characteristics of the most used methods in this area, a summary describing its aims and procedures is included.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ajroussos@hotmail.com
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Roussos
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D019348:Empiricism; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation; D011572:Psychoanalysis; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D012106:Research