Peter Stratton

Professor Peter Stratton is a Systemic Psychotherapist and psychologist with broad research interests and substantial involvement in statutory processes that affect the provision of psychotherapy. His own research includes development of an outcome measure for families in therapy (the SCORE project); the effects of basing training on concepts of active learning and the dialogical construction of self; the relationships of humour and creativity during psychotherapy; attributional analyses of family causal beliefs and blaming;  public attitudes to terrorism by combining attributional coding with metaphor analysis; and fostering practitioner research networks. His current positions include: Joint - Editor of Human Systems; Academic and Research Development Officer for the Association for Family Therapy;  Chair of the  UKCP Research Faculty; Chair of European Family Therapy Association Research Committee.