The research approach I recommend involves the intensive analysis of concre
te-change performances using both intensive observation and measurement of
in-session behavior, as well as the investigation of participants' subjecti
ve recall of their experience. The goal is to build models of client-change
processes and the therapist interventions that set these in motion. Exampl
es of research efforts to study the allowing of emotional pain, the process
of interruption of emotion. and the process of resolution of hopelessness
are given. (C) 1999 John Wiley a Sons. Inc.