title: Practice-oriented research: what it takes to do collaborative research in private practice.
abstract: The goal of this paper is to describe the authors' experience conducting research in and for private practice. Based on two distinct research programs (one guided by a scientist practitioner leading various groups of clinicians and another from a network of practitioners and researchers), a number of practice-oriented studies are presented. Lessons learned from these collaborative projects are discussed in terms of challenges and strategies to deal with them, as well as benefits that can be earned from conducting empirical studies within clinical routine. General recommendations are then offered to foster the engagement of clinicians in their own working environment and to facilitate partnerships between researchers and practitioners in developing and implementing valid, feasible, and informative clinical studies.
authors.affiliation: a Evidence-Based Practice Institute , Seattle , WA , USA.
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koerner
authors.forename: Louis G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Castonguay
mesh_terms: D006302:Health Services Research / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D011331:Private Practice / Q000592:standards*; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000592:standards*
keywords: mental health services research; outcome research; philosophical/theoretical issues in therapy research; process research; technology in psychotherapy research and training