An analysis of scientific and professional articles in the Slovenian journal for psychotherapy – Kairos 2007 - 2017

Abstract

In 2017 Kairos – The Slovenian Journal of Psychotherapy celebrated its 10th anni­versary. It is the only journal of its kind in Slovenia and publishes contributions from all fields of psychotherapy, as well as interdisciplinary articles and articles from neigh­bouring fields. It promotes the idea of psychotherapy as an autonomous profession and academic field grounded on a scientific basis. In this article scientific and professional articles published between 2007 and 2017 are analysed. A comparison of the empirical quantitative, empirical qualitative and theoretical research articles was made. One of the important trends observed is the prevalence of qualitative research. In addition, we categorized the articles regarding the psychotherapeutic modality and created different content categories based on the interdisciplinary fields addressed in the articles. We traced differences in various aspects of the articles’ content between two five-year time periods and found that there has been a rise in the number of scientific articles. Tentative interpretations of the results are given and possible future trends are discussed.