Measurement to Improve Treatment Delivery: A Commentary on the HiTOP Measure Development Project

Assessment ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107319112110509
Author(s):  
Shannon Sauer-Zavala
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Measure Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Routine Clinical Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Treatment Delivery ◽  
Improve Treatment ◽  
Measurement Strategy ◽  
Symptom Level

The focus on this commentary will be on how dimensional models of psychopathology, particularly HiTOP model, have the potential to significantly streamline treatment efforts and increase the likelihood that evidence-based interventions are more widely integrated in clinical practice. The approach to assessment adopted by the HiTOP consortium is likely to have an outsized impact on whether these innovations are adopted in routine clinical practice. Toward that end, I provide suggestions for a measurement strategy that can maximize clinical utility. In particular, the tension between creating items that reflect all phenomena at the sign/symptom level to refine our understanding of relationships among psychopathological constructs and creating a measure that is suitable for clinical practice is explored.

scholarly journals Adherence to evidence-based pressure injury prevention guidelines in routine clinical practice: a longitudinal study

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1290-1298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Chaboyer ◽  
Tracey Bucknall ◽  
Brigid Gillespie ◽  
Lukman Thalib ◽  
Elizabeth McInnes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Injury Prevention ◽  
Routine Clinical Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Pressure Injury ◽  
Prevention Guidelines ◽  
Pressure Injury Prevention

scholarly journals Psychiatry in the future

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 277-278
Author(s):  
Frank Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Cochrane Collaboration ◽  
Routine Clinical Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Cochrane Collaboration ◽  
Based Medicine

In an era of evidence-based medicine, policy-makers and researchers are preoccupied by the task of ensuring that advances in research are implemented in routine clinical practice. This preoccupation has spawned a small but growing research industry of its own, with the development of resources such as the Cochrane Collaboration database and journals such as Evidence-Based Mental Health. In this paper, I adopt a philosophically quite unfashionable methodology – introspection – to address the question: how has research affected my practice?

scholarly journals The clinical assessment of acts of violence: mental mechanisms and subjectivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajan Nathan ◽  
Peter Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Routine Clinical Practice ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Individual

SUMMARYApproaches to assessing violence in clinical practice have been influenced by developments in the field of risk assessment. As a result, there has been a focus on identifying and describing factors associated with violence. However, a factor-based approach to assessing violence in individual cases has limited clinical utility. In response, the benefits of a formulation-based approach have been promoted. This approach is enhanced by an understanding of the specific mental mechanisms that increase the likelihood of violence in the individual case. Although there is an empirical evidence base for mental mechanisms associated with violence, this literature has not been distilled and synthesised in a way that informs routine clinical practice. In this article the authors present the key mechanisms that are known to be associated with violence in a way that is relevant to the clinical assessment of violence and, in turn, can inform clinical and risk management.

How do eating disorder specialist clinicians apply DSM-IV diagnostic criteria in routine clinical practice? Implications for enhancing clinical utility in DSM-5

2010 ◽  
Vol 178 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Thomas ◽  
Sherrie S. Delinsky ◽  
Sarah A. St. Germain ◽  
Thomas J. Weigel ◽  
Christopher M. Tangren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Routine Clinical Practice ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Dsm Iv

Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Assessment

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Amanda Jensen-Doss ◽  
Lucia M. Walsh ◽  
Vanesa Mora Ringle
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Routine Clinical Practice ◽  
Dissemination And Implementation ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Case Formulation

Abstract: The goal of evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP) is to improve public health through the application of research-supported assessment, case formulation, therapeutic relationship, and treatment approaches. Although EBPP is defined broadly, many efforts to improve practice have focused on treatment, with less attention paid to other aspects of practice. In this chapter, it is argued that significant work is needed to encourage the dissemination of information about evidence-based assessment (EBA) and its implementation in routine clinical practice. The chapter discusses how EBA differs from usual clinical assessment practices and describes efforts to increase the use of EBA. Finally, the chapter presents suggestions for steps that must be taken to advance the use of EBA in clinical settings.

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