title: The role of evaluation in clinical practice: overview and group treatment illustration.
abstract: A variety of intrinsic and extrinsic factors exert pressure on clinicians and researchers to forge a more effective alliance in their mutual efforts to understand treatment process and outcome. The authors provide a general framework and a specific group-therapy model to demonstrate how research measures can facilitate this integration and thereby improve the quality of service delivery. We divide treatment into four phases: negotiation, retention, enhancement, and evaluation, and illustrate how psychotherapists can use research instruments to overcome problems at each stage of intervention.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742.
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Dies
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Dies
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000145:classification* / Q000592:standards; D012106:Research