Status: Recruitment in progress
As of today, 13 therapist–client dyads are participating in the Russian-speaking branch of the international study.
The Russian-speaking branch aims to recruit 40 therapist–client dyads. This target is expected to provide a sufficient regional sample for preliminary statistical analyses and for comparisons with the broader international dataset.
Dyadic longitudinal observational study spanning one and a half years, including five measurement points: baseline, three six-month follow-ups, and a final assessment at 18 months.
This international research project investigates long-term Gestalt therapy processes, psychotherapy outcomes, and therapists’ relational aesthetic intuition measured through the ARK-T scale.
Participants are clients and their psychotherapists. Data are collected longitudinally to explore therapeutic change, process dynamics, and factors associated with successful outcomes in Gestalt therapy.
The project contributes to practice-based evidence in Gestalt therapy while preserving the complexity of relational clinical practice.
The international project (ARKCO) has been approved by the Ethical Committee of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split (Croatia), and the Russian-speaking branch has approval from the Department of Psychology, HSE University.
The study was proposed by Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb within the Training Institutes Council (TIC) of the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT).
It aims to support Gestalt therapy training institutes internationally and contribute to the empirical foundation of the field.
14 countries · more than 400 therapist–client cases worldwide