Who, what, when, where, how? - Minimal requierements for the publication of group psychotherapy related research results

Group psychotherapy is still an important field within psychotherapy resear ch. Reviews and metaanalyses demonstrate the effectiveness of group treatme nts for a variety of disorders. Attempts to summarize the research results often are impeded by the fact that important informations to evaluate singl e studies are missing in the publications. Based upon this observation this article tries to summarize minimal requirements for the publication of res earch results related to group therapy. These focus on the patients treated within the studies, the therapists, the treatment concept, group character istics, as well as methodology. If these minimal requirements could be esta blished.