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03-04-2024 | Artificial Intelligence | Introduction

Practice-Oriented Research: An Introduction to New Developments and Future Directions

Authors: Louis G. Castonguay, Dana Atzil-Slonim, Kim de Jong, Soo Jeong Youn

Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | Issue 3/2024

Abstract

Aimed at understanding and improving psychological therapies as they are conducted in clinical routine, practice-oriented research (POR) is now a well-established approach to the scientific foundations of mental health care services. Resting on the accumulation of a wide range of practice-based evidence related to treatment outcome and process, as well as factors associated with the participants of psychotherapy and its context, POR is ripe for new developments – regarding what to investigate and how to investigate it. This paper is the introduction of a series devoted to recent advances and future directions of POR as their pertained to routine outcome monitoring, technologies and artificial intelligence, the integration of constructs and methods from program evaluation and implementation science, and the investigation of populations with limited financial resources across various regions of the world. The series also includes commentaries from two leaders of POR.

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Title: Practice-Oriented Research: An Introduction to New Developments and Future Directions
Authors: Louis G. Castonguay
Dana Atzil-Slonim
Kim de Jong
Soo Jeong Youn
Publication date: 03-04-2024
Publisher: Springer US
Keyword: Artificial Intelligence
Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research / Issue 3/2024
Print ISSN: 0894-587X
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3289
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-024-01369-z

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