title: Building clinicians-researchers partnerships: lessons from diverse natural settings and practice-oriented initiatives.
abstract: In this concluding paper, we identify the type of studies conducted by 11 teams of contributors to a special issue on building clinicians-researchers partnerships. Those studies were conducted across a variety of clinical settings. We also integrate the lessons that have emerged from their collaborative initiatives in terms of obstacles faced, strategies adopted to address these challenges, benefits gained, and general recommendations offered to facilitate studies conducted with or by clinicians. The paper ends with the authors' thoughts about the future success of practice-oriented research in general.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , Penn State University , University Park , PA , USA.
authors.forename: Louis G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Castonguay
authors.forename: Soo Jeong
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Youn
authors.forename: Henry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: J Christopher
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Muran
authors.forename: Jacques P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Barber
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012108:Research Personnel
keywords: practice-based evidence; practice-oriented research; practice-research network; scientific-practitioner model