title: Evaluation of psychotherapy. Efficacy, effectiveness, and patient progress.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-2710, USA. k-howard@nwu.edu
authors.forename: K I
authors.initials: KI
authors.lastname: Howard
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Moras
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Brill
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Martinovich
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lutz
mesh_terms: 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