I'm interested in any experience & advice with regard to conducting personality & psychotherapy research, including research on training & supervision, in such a setting. Any recommendations regarding assessment strategies, participation/cooperation, & ethical concerns?
Hi Chris, we use the OQ45, WAI and Session Evaluation Questionnaire as both clinical feedback measures for supervision, as well as contributing to a collective database for program evaluation and research purposes, at our Clinical Psych Training Clinic at York. We also conduct a MINI structured interview at session two. hope that is helpful take care, Lynne
Hi Micah. We are planning to study both the psychotherapy & training process, to enlist the participation of patients, therapists, & supervisors, & yes we are reviewing different strategies & considerations. Our ambition is to bring all these dimensions & methods together. Thanks, Chris
Hi Lynne. Funny meeting you here. Thanks for the details re York. We have the OQ in play & are using iPads for data collection & recording with the video platform Panopto. We are weighing using the ASC (which includes the HAq) to track variables like the alliance. We have always used the WAI & SEQ postsession at Beth Israel. Using the MINI (instead of the SCID) is interesting. Best wishes for the new year, Chris
Thank you, Micah. We will take a look at the PCOMS too. I appreciate your answer very much. Best, Chris
Happy New Year to you too Chris and just a note to let you know that we also are just about to implement iPads for OQ data processing/data collection - and ASC- and have been helping to establish an OQ45- based, multi-site Psych Clinic PRN /database in Ontario, perhaps Canada wide in the future, to conduct collaborative research projects. We are just about to launch a pilot project with three participating training clinic sites and a community-based primary care clinic.
So ASC in addition to WAI (& SEQ)? Will ASC only be initiated when the OQ indicates poor progress or ongoingly (after every session)?
Good question ! right now our plan is to administer the ASC in response to red alerts but have also wondered if it might be helpful/interesting in the future to explore using the ASC on a more regular basis as it seems to capture some pretty interesting info --
Hi, Dr. Muran. Have you talked with Clara Hill at Maryland? I don't think she's on ResearchGate, but as an alum of her clinic and collaborator on several studies coming out of the clinic, I can tell you that we've used the OQ45, IIP-32, WAI, ECR, and Charlie Gelso's Real Relationship Inventory. We also just had a ms accepted that investigated trainees' change in use of psychodynamic vs CBT techniques, using Hilsenroth's Comparative Psychotherapy Process Scale. Clara has also done modified CQR (of course!) using post-treatment interview with trainees and clients as well as session transcript data.
Yes, some time ago I did, but I appreciate your reminder & summary. Thank you, Chris
I sincerely believe that the insights of my late father, Dr. Max Hammer (an eminent psychotherapist, university professor of psychology, and supervisor of clinical psychology interns in psychotherapy), and our co-author colleague/friend (Dr. Alan C. Butler, also a highly effective psychotherapist, Emeritus Associate Professor of psychology, and Emeritus supervisor of interns at the University of Maine counseling center) are very valuable, as presented in our recently published book, "Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation." In this book, I and my co-authors address some of the issues raised in John Christopher Muran's question, such as, presenting innovative diagnostic questionnaires for personality and psychotherapy research, as well as experiential insights about effective psychotherapeutic relationships and ethical concerns.
Would you like to partner in a joint research venture? I am open to any ideas you might have.......let me know.
Have you considered your options of having a website built to administer assessments and how the Internet might factor into your pursuit? A few years ago, I had a website developed for a study to deliver an intervention and it worked very well. I was able to recruit people from all over the country. Yet, at that time the assessments were not delivered on line. I would think it might be easier today than it was at that time due to the fact that when I developed the study there was not much information available for online studies and use of the Internet as a part of research was so new.
Thanks, Susan. We are aiming for online assessment, but with the OQ Analyst & Panopto software/platforms.
Yes, Eva, your proposal sounds very interesting. Let's discuss in the new year.
Several university-based counseling centers utilize assessment measures as part of clinical practice. Service utilization and clinical assessment data are analyzed. Doctoral interns or fellows are often focused on getting clinical hours, but they do get exposure to some level of research if the center is a practice-research setting. For example, our center is a member of the Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH) based at Penn State University. Like other member counseling centers, we administer the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (CCAPS-62 and 34) at a set interval to measure distress in a variety of domains (e.g., eating concerns, hostility, suicide/homicide risk, depression, academic distress, generalized and social anxiety, etc.)
As far as ethical concerns - students consent to using our clinical services and are made aware of how we use the CCAPS data. The measures are not administered on minors. Any high risk indicators are reviewed by the clinician and addressed with the student during the intake appointment.
Most of the member centers contribute their data to a large national data-set, which allows CCMH to identify trends in the college population. Our students are compared (standardized scores, percentiles) to the data-set (n=60,000 at present), which consists of college students who have utilized counseling services at universities across the country.
Essentially, this allows us to research sub-sets of the college population, inform the university about mental health trends on campus and nationwide, assess the efficacy of treatment interventions, and identify how particular students respond to treatment. Further, we will be able to look at retention/graduation data and identify how our services contribute to student retention. Our goal is to identify underrepresented students and students who are at-risk of dropping out of college, and assess what contributes to their academic struggles.
Susan Stuntzner, very interesting information that you brought.
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