Clinical Practice as Natural Laboratory for Psychotherapy Research: A Guide to Case-Based Time-Series Analysis

Both researchers and practitioners need to know more about how laboratory treatment protocols translate to real-world practice settings and how clinical innovations can be systematically tested and communicated to a skeptical scientific community. The single-case time-series study is well suited to...

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Published inThe American psychologist Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 77 - 95
Main Authors Borckardt, Jeffrey J, Nash, Michael R, Murphy, Martin D, Moore, Mark, Shaw, Darlene, O'Neil, Patrick
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Psychological Association 01.02.2008
Subjects
Case Studies
Clinical Experience
Health Planning Guidelines
Humans
Laboratories
Observation
Outcomes of Treatment
Practice Patterns, Physicians
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy - education
Psychotherapy - methods
Research Design
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Summary:Both researchers and practitioners need to know more about how laboratory treatment protocols translate to real-world practice settings and how clinical innovations can be systematically tested and communicated to a skeptical scientific community. The single-case time-series study is well suited to opening a productive discourse between practice and laboratory. The appeal of case-based time-series studies, with multiple observations both before and after treatment, is that they enrich our design palette by providing the discipline another way to expand its empirical reach to practice settings and its subject matter to the contingencies of individual change. This article is a user's guide to conducting empirically respectable case-based time-series studies in a clinical practice or laboratory setting.
ISSN:0003-066X
DOI:10.1037/0003-066x.63.2.77