The Italian network of Empirical Research in Psychodynamic Group Therapy

The research projects are developed in close collaboration between clinicians, involved in the actual experience of caring for patients and researchers interested in providing useful and scientifically sound tools for understanding the therapeutic work, and want to contribute to the empirical evaluation of the functioning of groups psychodynamic therapy. Objective of several research projects is to assess clinical efficacy (effectiveness) of psychodynamic groups, to increase the clinical relapse of empirical research on psychotherapy. It is also proposed a complex research project, which focuses on various aspects of therapeutic work (characteristics of patients before therapy, outcomes, process-outcome relationship, specific aspects of the therapeutic process believed to be capable of moderating the change) (Giannone, Lo Verso, 1998, Burlingame, MacKenzie, Strauss, 2004; Lo Coco, Giannone, Lo Verso, 2006).