| Abstract: | The commentaries on D. Westen, C. M. Novotny, and H. Thompson-Brenner's (2004; see records 2004-15935-005; 2004-15935-006; and 2004-15935-007) review suggest a number of questions, such as how an empirically informed clinician can integrate both applied and basic science into practice. The authors suggest recommendations for design and funding of psychotherapy research, including expanding the targets of intervention beyond categorical DSM-IV diagnoses, routinely comparing short- and longer- term variants of experimental treatments, revising funding mechanisms to facilitate the study of treatments and follow-up assessments of appropriate duration for the problems they are targeting, requiring at least one "dissenter" on every research team, discouraging exclusion criteria other than those a reasonable clinician would use in everyday practice, creating funding mechanisms for developing and testing treatments in the community, and including practicing clinicians among reviewers of grant proposals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
