In recent years, innovative approaches have been implemented in counseling and psychotherapy research, creating new and exciting interdisciplinary subfields. The findings that emerged from the implementation of these approaches demonstrate their potential to deepen our understanding of therapeutic change. This article serves as an introduction to the "Innovative Approaches to Exploring Processes of Change in Counseling Psychology" special issue. The special issue includes articles representing several of the most promising approaches. Each article seeks to serve as a sourcebook for implementing a given approach in counseling research, in such areas as the assessment of coregulation processes, language processing, physiology, motion synchrony, event-related potentials, hormonal measures, and sociometric signals captured by a badge. The studies included in this special issue represent some of the most promising pathways for future studies and provide valuable resources for researchers, as well as clinicians interested in implementing such approaches and/or being educated consumers of empirical findings based on such approaches. This introduction synthesizes the articles in the special issue and proposes a list of guidelines for conducting and consuming research that implements new approaches for studying the process of therapeutic change. We believe that we are not far from the day when these approaches will be instrumental in everyday counseling practice, where they can assist therapists and patients in their collaborative efforts to reduce suffering and increase thriving. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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探索咨询心理学变化过程的创新方法：未来研究的见解和原则。

近年来，在咨询和心理治疗研究中实施了创新方法，创造了新的、令人兴奋的跨学科子领域。实施这些方法的结果表明它们有可能加深我们对治疗变化的理解。本文是对“探索咨询心理学变化过程的创新方法”特刊的介绍。特刊包括代表几种最有前途的方法的文章。每篇文章都试图作为在咨询研究中实施给定方法的源书，在诸如评估协同调节过程、语言处理、生理学、运动同步、事件相关电位、荷尔蒙测量和由徽章捕获的社会测量信号等领域. 本期特刊中包含的研究代表了未来研究中一些最有希望的途径，并为研究人员以及有兴趣实施此类方法和/或接受基于此类方法的实证结果的消费者的教育的临床医生提供了宝贵的资源。本介绍综合了特刊中的文章，并提出了一系列指导方针，用于实施和消费研究，这些研究实施了研究治疗变化过程的新方法。我们相信，这些方法将在日常咨询实践中发挥重要作用的那一天离我们不远了，在那里它们可以帮助治疗师和患者共同努力减少痛苦并促进健康发展。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。