The purpose of this article is to serve as a guide for counseling psychologists to learn about a neuroscience methodology that can be used to study psychotherapy change processes. Event-related potential (ERP) is a specific type of electroencephalography that can be time-locked to a stimulus and thus allows researchers to examine neural responses to specific therapeutic techniques. A conceptual overview of the method and its applicability to counseling psychologists is provided. Additionally, this article contains basic guidelines for designing an ERP study, the tools necessary for setting up an ERP lab, and an overview of data-processing strategies. Common pitfalls encountered both broadly in neuroscience research and specifically in ERP research are discussed. An integrated review of relevant literature is presented here, along with suggestions for future counseling psychology research, with a focus on establishing biomarkers of successful interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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使用事件相关电位探索咨询心理学的变化过程。

本文的目的是作为指导心理学家了解可用于研究心理治疗变化过程的神经科学方法的指南。事件相关电位 (ERP) 是一种特定类型的脑电图，它可以与刺激时间锁定，因此允许研究人员检查对特定治疗技术的神经反应。提供了该方法的概念概述及其对咨询心理学家的适用性。此外，本文还包含设计 ERP 研究的基本指南、建立 ERP 实验室所需的工具以及数据处理策略的概述。讨论了在神经科学研究和 ERP 研究中广泛遇到的常见陷阱。这里提供了对相关文献的综合评论，以及对未来咨询心理学研究的建议，重点是建立成功干预的生物标志物。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。