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TRANSLATING RESEARCH TO PRACTICE: TOO MUCH RESEARCH, NOT ENOUGH PRACTICE?
Author(s) -
RoyByrne Peter
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
depression and anxiety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.634
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6394
pISSN - 1091-4269
DOI - 10.1002/da.22443
Subject(s) - psychology , engineering ethics , engineering
Depression and Anxiety has been increasingly focused on publishing research and review papers with high relevance for clinical practice. This is consistent with the mission of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), its sponsoring organization, which has had a longstanding focus on translating information on evidence-based psychotherapy into clinical practice. The recent release of the Institute of Medicine Report “Psychosocial Interventions for Mental and Substance Use Disorders: A Framework for Establishing Evidence Based Standards” is an important event in the “science to practice” arena. The report covers a broad range of disorders that such treatments might address, including substance use, as well as individuals feeling the effects of stress, but without diagnosable disorders. Since our journal and its organization focus on anxiety and depression, we invited a group of experts to focus on these two groups of disorders (which comprise 75% of the disorders affecting individuals seeking care) and comment on the report from a broad range of perspectives. This set of commentaries provides a comprehensive look at the report, emphasizing both its strengths and its shortcomings. Myrna Weissman, Deputy Editor of Depression and Anxiety, and a member of the IOM committee that generated the report, begins with an overview of the report to orient readers. Following this, four experts in the four most well studied and currently practiced evidencebased psychotherapies—CBT (Hollen), IPT (Swartz), DBT (Comtois and Landes), and psychodynamic psychotherapy (Milrod)—provide their view of the report. Next, an expert with practical experience implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of evidence-based psychosocial treatments in the VA system (Karlin), provides an overview from the implementation perspective. Following this is a commentary from the perspective of psychotherapy training in the psychiatry training program world (Cabaniss, Wainberg, and Oquendo). It is often overlooked that one of the most efficient ways to