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One of our goals at the Penn State Psychological Clinic over the last several years has been to develop a way to integrate our service, training and research missions, so that our students begin to learn what it means to be a "scientist-practitioner" from the beginning of their careers. Since we function as a community mental health center, our challenge has been to develop a research infrastructure within our clinic that allows us to do rigorous research in a naturalistic setting. To this end we have taken the following steps:
Review curriculum, practica and clinic procedures to make sure that they fit with a research agenda. As a result of this review, we revised our 1st year curriculum & practica so that students learn descriptive psychopathology and the administration of the
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SCID interviews so that an independent reliability check can be done by another clinician, and then a consensus diagnosis can be achieved.
Choose a core outcome battery. We have chosen to use the Treatment Outcome Package by Access Measurement Systems. It provides us with demographic, case-mix, symptom change and client satisfaction data on all our clients. Over time we expect to incorporate additional brief assessment instruments depending on the focus of different research studies.
Establish a clinic research committee including representatives from the faculty, clinical students, community practitioners and providers to review research proposals from the perspectives of their clinical impact and relevance.
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