Therapists and Researchers: Advancing Collaboration

Overview

Journal Psychother Res

Publisher Routledge

Specialties Pharmacology
Psychiatry
Psychology

Date 2013 Nov 15

PMID 24224554

Citations 15

Authors

Ann F Garland

Lauren Brookman-Frazee

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Abstract

Collaborative partnerships between community-based clinicians and academic researchers have the potential to improve the relevance, utility, and feasibility of research, as well as the effectiveness of practice. Collaborative partnership research from a variety of fields can inform the development and maintenance of effective partnerships. In this paper we present a conceptual model of research-community practice partnership derived from literature across disciplines and then illustrate application of this model to one case example. The case example is a multi-year partnership between an interdisciplinary group of community-based psychotherapists and a team of mental health researchers. This partnership was initiated to support federally funded research on community-based outpatient mental health care for children with disruptive behavior problems, but it has evolved to drive and support new intervention studies with different clinical foci. Lessons learned from this partnership process will be shared and interpreted in the context of the presented research-practice partnership model.

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