Examining Psychotherapy Processes in a Services Research Context |
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Authors: | Ann F Garland Michael S Hurlburt Kristin M Hawley |
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Institution: | Child and Adolescent Services Research Center and the University of California, San Diego; Child and Adolescent Services Research Center and San Diego Children's Hospital and Health Center; University of Missouri-Columbia |
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Abstract: | Interdisciplinary research efforts integrating services and interventions research methodologies are needed to improve the "real-world" clinical utility and impact of youth mental health research. "Hybrid" services and interventions research efforts can capitalize on the methodologic strengths of each research tradition in order to more rigorously examine and affect therapy processes in usual care youth mental health service settings. The goals of this article are to (a) identify the need for hybrid practice research on youth mental health care; (b) present a "case example" of a hybrid study, where child and family therapy processes are being examined in a usual care, practice-based context by a team of services researchers; (c) address the potential advantages and challenges of hybrid research; and (d) suggest promising areas for future hybrid research in youth mental health care. |
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Keywords: | psychotherapy usual care practice |
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