title: Introduction to the special section "Big'er' Data": Scaling up psychotherapy research in counseling psychology.
abstract: This article introduces the special section on utilizing large data sets to explore psychotherapy processes and outcomes. The increased use of technology has provided new opportunities for psychotherapy researchers. In particular, there is a rise in large databases of tens of thousands clients. Additionally, there are new ways to pool valuable resources for meta-analytic processes. At the same time, these tools also come with limitations. These issues are introduced as well as brief overview of the articles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Denver.
authors.forename: Jesse
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Owen
authors.affiliation: Department of Educational Psychology, University of Utah.
authors.forename: Zac E
authors.initials: ZE
authors.lastname: Imel
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D066264:Datasets as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*