Implementation Science and Practice-Oriented Research: Convergence and Complementarity.

Implementation science is the scientific study of methods to promote the uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practices in routine care, with the goal of improving the quality and effectiveness of health services (Bauer et al., 2015). In addition to this common goal, practice-oriented psychotherapy research (and researchers) and implementation science (and scientists) share a common focus on the people and the places where treatment happens.

A Multimethod Study of Mental Health Care Patients' Attitudes Toward Clinician-Level Performance Information.

Objective: Research demonstrates variability in mental health clinicians' overall and domain-specific outcomes for their patients. Despite calls to increase patient access to provider performance information, little is known about patients' attitudes toward and valuing of this information. This study explored patient attitudes, preferences, and values regarding the use of clinician outcome track records in provider selection and treatment decision making.

Feasibility and acceptability of a novel tool for the study of interpersonal processes in psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy process research methods often require extensive time and resources. Technology innovations, such as wearable sensors, have the potential to increase the efficiency of process data collection and processing. One such tool is the Sociometric Badge (SB), which is a portable, palm-sized device that can simultaneously record raw audio and data on social signals (e.

A preliminary naturalistic clinical case series study of the feasibility and impact of interoceptive exposure for eating disorders.

Recent literature suggests that individuals with eating disorders demonstrate altered interoceptive processing, which may relate to the maintenance of symptoms and thus represent a salient treatment target. Adopting treatment techniques effective for other conditions characterized by disturbed interoceptive processes (e.g.

Practice-research integration in the residential treatment of patients with severe eating and comorbid disorders.

Residential treatment involves a number of treatment components and modalities, and treatment staff come from diverse training backgrounds. These complexities present unique challenges for the implementation of standardized programming, training, and routine assessment to support practice and research aims. Implementation science highlights the critical role of clinician attitudes in successful adoption and sustainability.

Mental health care consumers' relative valuing of clinician performance information.

Background: Research demonstrates significant variability in mental health clinicians' overall and domain-specific effectiveness with their patients. Despite calls to increase patient access to performance information, little is known about patients' relative valuing of this information in the context of other treatment factors.

Objective: We aimed to obtain an understanding of patients' relative valuing of provider performance track records and other therapist and treatment characteristics for their mental health care decision making.

Interpersonal pathoplasticity and trajectories of change in routine adolescent and young adult residential substance abuse treatment.

Background: Partnerships between mental health care stakeholders provide a context for generalizable clinical research with implications for quality improvement. In the context of a partnership between an adolescent residential substance abuse disorder (SUD) treatment center and clinical researchers, stakeholders identified knowledge gaps (internal and the field broadly) with regard to patient interpersonal factors that influence working alliance and acute SUD residential treatment outcome trajectories.

Objective: To (a) examine interpersonal pathoplasticity and identify interpersonal subtypes in a naturalistic sample of adolescent and young-adult patients presenting for routine residential SUD treatment and (b) investigate the association between identified interpersonal subtypes and working alliance and acute treatment outcome trajectories.

Response of School Districts to the New York State Concussion Awareness and Management Act: Review of Policies and Procedures.

Background: By 2014, all states implemented concussion laws that schools must translate into daily practice; yet, limited knowledge exists regarding implementation of these laws. We examined the extent to which concussion management policies and procedure (P&P) documents of New York State school districts comply with the State's Concussion Awareness and Management Act (the Act). We also aimed to identify barriers to compliance.

The Expanding Relevance of Routinely Collected Outcome Data for Mental Health Care Decision Making.

Evidence shows that routine outcome monitoring (ROM) and feedback using standardized measurement tools enhances the outcomes of individual patients. When outcome data from a large number of patients and clinicians are collected, patterns can be tracked and comparisons can be made at multiple levels. Variability in skills and outcomes among clinicians and service settings has been documented, and the relevance of ROM for decision making is rapidly expanding alongside the transforming health care landscape.