Practice-Oriented Research: An Introduction to New Developments and Future Directions.

Journal: Administration and policy in mental health
PMID: 38568433

Abstract

Aimed at understanding and improving psychological therapies as they are conducted in clinical routine, practice-oriented research (POR) is now a well-established approach to the scientific foundations of mental health care services. Resting on the accumulation of a wide range of practice-based evidence related to treatment outcome and process, as well as factors associated with the participants of psychotherapy and its context, POR is ripe for new developments - regarding what to investigate and how to investigate it. This paper is the introduction of a series devoted to recent advances and future directions of POR as their pertained to routine outcome monitoring, technologies and artificial intelligence, the integration of constructs and methods from program evaluation and implementation science, and the investigation of populations with limited financial resources across various regions of the world. The series also includes commentaries from two leaders of POR.

Authors

  • Louis G Castonguay
    Department of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA. Lgc3psu@gmail.com.
  • Dana Atzil-Slonim
    Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. dana.slonim@gmail.com.
  • Kim de Jong
    Institute of Psychology, Clinical Psychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • Soo Jeong Youn
    Reliant Medical Group, OptumCare, Worcester, MA, USA.

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