The Scientist Practitioner: Research and Accountability in Clinical and Educational Settings

by David H. Barlow, Rosemery O. Nelson

Involvement in practice-based research and accountability is an applied and a research necessity. This book stresses that research and practice are not separate domains but integrated. Emphasizes managed care and systems of health care delivery; shows how single-case designs fit into an overall model of science-based practice; covers current systems of assessment that allow the evaluation of elinical impact in the practice environment; and describes how program development and evaluation should fit into the skills of the modern empirical clinician. Topics include: a detailed description of managed care systems in chapter 2; includes a model of how ot succeed in managed care in chapter 4; and offers program evaluation in chapter 10. For clinical psychology practitioners who emphasize evalutation of treatment outcomes.

360 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1983

About the author

David H. Barlow, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry Emeritus and Founder of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University. Dr. Barlow has published over 600 articles and chapters and over 75 books and clinical manuals, mostly in the area of the nature and treatment of emotional disorders and clinical research methodology.