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A multidisciplinary group of experts was convened by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to discuss new opportunities in psychotherapy research. Participants agreed that more research is needed to assess stakeholders’ needs, to better understand techniques commonly used in clinical practice, and to test efficacious treatments in community settings. These steps will require increased collaboration across different disciplines, development of new research methods, and a willingness for investigators to ask novel research questions. Participants outlined obstacles to conducting public health-oriented research such as the current dearth of supportive infrastructure (e.g., lack of training opportunities for new investigators), concerns about how applications for conducting new or hybrid methodologies will fare when evaluated by NIMH initial review groups, and the obvious differences in terminology used by relevant stakeholders.
Street et al. (Sat,) studied this question.