Developing a European Psychotherapy Consortium (EPoC): Scientific objectives and logistical challenges
(2024) Clinical Psychology in Europe — Vol. 6, n° 3, p. 1-15 (2024)
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- Complementing the development of evidence-based psychological therapies, practice-based evidence has developed from patient samples collected in routine care, addressing questions relevant to patients and practitioners and thereby expanding our knowledge of psychological therapies and their impact. Implementation of assessments in routine care allows for timely clinical decision support and the collection of multiple practice-based data sets by addressing the needs of patients and clinicians (e.g., routine outcome monitoring) and the needs of researchers (e.g., identifying the impact of therapist variables on outcomes).In this article we describe an initiative developed in Europe, through the Society of Psychotherapy Research, aiming to create a consortium that has the potential for collecting data on tens of thousands of patients per year. A survey identified one of the main problems in the development of a common data set to be the diversity of measures used by members (e.g., 87 different pre-post outcomes). Three strategies for addressing this issue were adopted: (1) the addition of a single item, common to all the clinics; (2) the development of procedures that allow crosswalks of outcome measures; and (3) the creation of a task force that may be consulted when new data sets are collected, aiming for new common measures to be implemented and shared.
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Gonçalves, M. M., Lutz, W., Schwartz, B., Oliveira, J. T., Saarni, S. E., Tishby, O., Rubel, J. A., Boehnke, J. R., Montesano, A., Paiva, D., Ceridono, D., Zech, E., Willemsen, J., & et al. (2024). Developing a European Psychotherapy Consortium (EPoC): Scientific objectives and logistical challenges. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 6(3), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.13827 (Original work published 2024)