UDP Internacional

6 July 2023

This edition had the motto “Reshaping the social representation of psychotherapy: An engagement with public mental health”.

Between June 21 and 24, the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research was held in Dublin, Ireland, where different researchers and PhD students in Psychology from the Diego Portales University participated.

This edition had the title “Reshaping the social representation of psychotherapy: An engagement with public mental health” and featured presentations by academics, researchers from the Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Research Center (CEPPS-UDP), Alemka Tomicic, Claudio Martinez and Javiera Duarte. Jesús Vidal, a graduate of the School and CEPPS research assistant, also participated. Doctoral students Christian Spuler, Cristian Ortega and Felipe Concha also participated.

“The Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) is one of the most important in its nature, bringing together clinicians and research psychotherapists from different regions worldwide. In fact, it is organized by the North American, European, UK, Asian and Latin American chapters, with Professor Claudio Martínez currently being president of the latter”, explained Tomicic.

For the academic from the UDP Faculty of Psychology, “participating in this type of event is very important, not only because it constitutes a window to expose the advances of our research developments, but also because they are an opportunity to strengthen and establish collaborative ties in common lines of study.

“Also this year, discussions on gender, underrepresented groups and social justice in psychotherapy research were established. Finally, many of the papers presented tend to subsequently become publications, which we know is an important form of scientific productivity,” concluded Tomicic.