Evaluation of psychotherapy. Efficacy, effectiveness, and patient progress.
Treatment-focused research is concerned with the establishment of the comparative efficacy and effectiveness of clinical interventions, aggregated over groups of patients. The authors introduce and illustrate a new paradigm-patient-focused research-that is concerned with the monitoring of an individual's progress over the course of treatment and the feedback of this information to the practitioner, supervisor, or case manager.
Howard
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Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2710, USA. k-howard@nwu.edu
Moras
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Brill
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Martinovich
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Lutz
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D000328:Adult; D004282:Documentation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012106:Research; D016896:Treatment Outcome