Integrating Research and Practice

2019 ◽  
pp. 432-447
Author(s):  
Louis G. Castonguay ◽  
Michael J. Constantino ◽  
Henry Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Research Networks ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Treatment Context ◽  
Oriented Research

This chapter reviews efforts to integrate psychotherapy research and practice through collaboration and information-sharing within naturalistic clinical settings. Specifically, the chapter focuses on three types of practice-oriented research that capitalize on the bidirectional partnership between researchers and practitioners: (1) patient-focused, (2) practice-based, and (3) practice-research networks. The authors provide examples of each type of integration, highlighting the ways in which the research is different, yet complementary to more traditional studies conducted in controlled settings. They submit that the researcher–practitioner partnership in an ecologically valid treatment context represents an optimal means to reduce the pervasive research–practice chasm and to promote genuine integration for enhancing the effectiveness and personalization of psychotherapy. The chapter also discusses future directions in this vein.

Therapist Characteristics and Strategies for Enhancing the Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Outcomes with Adults

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Laska ◽  
Samuel S. Nordberg
Keyword(s):  
Research Evidence ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Therapist Characteristics ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Therapist Variables ◽  
Outcome Monitoring ◽  
Improvement Strategies ◽  
Practice Gap

In this chapter we focus on how the therapist affects the effectiveness of psychotherapy. We approach this chapter as two researchers who are also practicing therapists and therefore are aware of common challenges regarding the research–practice gap. Our goals are to discuss specific implications of psychotherapy research and to highlight concrete steps for implementing therapist-focused quality improvement strategies in clinical settings. We begin with a discussion of why therapist variables have been neglected in psychotherapy research and review research evidence of therapist effects. We then discuss characteristics of effective therapists and ways in which individual therapists can improve their practice. Finally, we discuss the growing body of research on routine outcome monitoring (ROM) and the role both therapists and systems of care play in improving outcome.

Character Strengths and Mindfulness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karrie A. Shogren ◽  
Nirbhay Singh ◽  
Ryan Niemiec ◽  
Michael L. Wehmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Character Strengths ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Core Characteristics ◽  
Moral Philosophers

This chapter provides an overview of character strengths and mindfulness. Character strengths are specific psychological processes that define broader virtues, which are core characteristics that have been identified and valued by moral philosophers and religious thinkers throughout time. The chapter focuses on the contributions of the VIA Inventory of Strengths to research and assessment in character strengths, and the application of this framework to further strengths-based approaches to disability. Mindfulness has been described not only as a practice, but also as a state, a trait, a process, and an outcome. The chapter examines research, practice, and the application of mindfulness to disability contexts. A discussion of areas of connectivity between character strengths and mindfulness and a look at future directions for research and practice in character strengths and mindfulness in disability conclude the chapter.

scholarly journals Enhancing the International Study of Positive Youth Development: Process, Specificity, and the Sample Case of Character Virtues

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 402-422
Author(s):  
Richard M. Lerner ◽  
Pamela Jervis ◽  
Marc H. Bornstein
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
International Study ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Developmental Systems ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Sample Case ◽  
Positive Character

This article focuses on the interplay of research and practice (research⇔practice integration) in advancing international efforts to understand and enhance positive youth development (PYD). We discuss 3 facets of PYD research and application that have cross-cutting relevance to theory, to the use of theory for designing principles of PYD programs, and to evaluating whether specific instances of youth development programs have features that promote PYD. Using dynamic, relational developmental-systems-based concepts, we discuss the process of development involved in PYD, the use of the specificity principle to frame research and practice and, as a sample case illustrating how PYD research and practice can be advanced through the use of the specificity principle, we focus on one facet of PYD, that is, positive character, or character virtues. We point to important future directions for further illuminating the specificity of PYD process through assessing the developmental neurobiology of PYD, and we emphasize the important contributions that PYD research and practice integration can make worldwide to enhancing youth contributions to equity, social justice, and democracy.

scholarly journals Religious and Spiritual Values Central to Personality and Behaviour

Open Theology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Line Morin
Keyword(s):  
Belief Systems ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Third ◽  
A Value ◽  
Humanistic Approach ◽  
Fundamental Value

AbstractFollowing a review and analysis of Allen E. Bergin’s article “Psychotherapy and Religious Values,” this paper anticipates future directions for integrating clients’ religious and spiritual values in psychology and psychotherapy research and practice. The author argues that to support Bergin’s suggestion that such values are no longer “at the fringe of clinical psychology [but rather] at the center” of our comprehension of personality and its aspirations, researchers and clinicians in psychology need to go beyond the “methodolatry” denounced by Bergin and associated with probabilistic practices. For that purpose, she first presents the considerations of Experiential Ontological Phenomenology (EOP), to which the concept of will is added, as a methodological scientific foundation to a value-based model in psychotherapy. She then introduces the principal concept of this model, the fundamental value, presented in relationship with the second most important concept, the psychological nub, derived from psychoanalytic concepts. The third basic concept, the subjective process, borrowed from the humanistic approach, is mentioned as being included in the EOP theory. Finally, a brief case study demonstrates how this model constitutes a point of integration at which theistic values or belief systems and psychological studies and practice meet.

Exploring the Implementation of Early Math Assessments in Kindergarten Classrooms: A Research-Practice Collaboration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer McDonald ◽  
Rebecca Merkley ◽  
Jacqueline Mickle ◽  
Lisa Collimore ◽  
Daniel Ansari
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Thinking ◽  
Math Education ◽  
Kindergarten Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Early Numeracy ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Second Year

Research in cognitive development has highlighted that early numeracy skills are associated with later math achievement, suggesting that these skills should be targeted in early math education. Here we tested whether tools used by researchers to assess mathematical thinking could be useful in the classroom. This paper describes a collaborative project between cognitive scientists and school board researchers/educators implementing numeracy screeners with kindergarten students over the course of three school years. The Give-A-Number task (Wynn, 1990) was used with first-year kindergarten students and the Numeracy Screener [BLINDED] with second-year kindergarten students. Results indicated that educators (N = 59) found the tools feasible to implement and helpful for exploring their students’ thinking and targeting instruction. The Educators’ feedback also helped inform improvements to the implementation of the tools and future directions for both the schools and the researchers. This work emphasizes the importance of transdisciplinary collaboration to address the research-practice gap.

Ethnography

2020 ◽  
pp. 328-358
Author(s):  
Anthony Kwame Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Research Tradition ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Oriented Research

This chapter introduces ethnography as a distinct research and writing tradition. It opens with a discussion of ethnography’s current fashionability within transdisciplinary academic spaces and some of the associated challenges. The next section provides a historical overview of ethnography’s emergence as a professionalized research practice within the fields of anthropology and sociology. Focusing on ethnography as a research methodology, the chapter outlines several key attributes that distinguish it from other forms of participant observation–oriented research; provides a general overview of the central paradigms that ethnographers claim and/or move between; and spotlights three principal research methods that most ethnographers utilize—namely, participant observation, field-note writing, and ethnographic interviewing. The final section of the chapter introduces a research disposition called ethnographic comportment, defined as a politics of positionality that reflects both ethnographers’ awarenesses of and their accountabilities to the research tradition they participate in.

The Ethics of Placebo and Nocebo in Psychotherapy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Gaab ◽  
Cosima Locher ◽  
Manuel Trachsel
Keyword(s):  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Effective Intervention ◽  
Ethical Challenge ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Ongoing Controversy

There is as little doubt as much as there is empirical proof that psychotherapy is an effective intervention for psychological problems and disorders. However, there is ongoing controversy about the mechanisms underlying these often impressive, but also often overestimated effects, reaching back to the very origins of psychotherapy research. While this “great psychotherapy debate” vivifies both psychotherapy research and practice, it finally poses an ethical challenge for both psychotherapists and psychotherapy scholars. Basically, the lack of agreed and validated mechanisms impedes the attempt to inform patients about how changes of psychotherapy are brought about. Thus, even though patients can readily be furnished with possible and expectable benefits, costs and strains, the situation becomes more complex and less certain with regard to the specific mechanisms and determinants of change. In this chapter, psychotherapy scholars’ strivings and troubles for specificity will be briefly covered, touching the uncomfortable relationship with placebo and nocebo and finishing with an ethical plea for transparency in psychotherapy and of psychotherapists.

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