Great introductory video to Assistant Professor and friend of the lab Vivek Srikumar, who is in his first year teaching here at the University of Utah. His background is in natural language processing and machine learning (see his website svivek.com for more information).
Zac recently received a Faculty Fellowship award from the Department of Educational Psychology. He also recently received an Early Career Award from Division 29 of the American Psychological Association! (Click the imbedded links for the announcement.)
Thanks to the vigorous efforts of students, faculty (special thanks to Dr. Anne Cook, Educational Psychology Department Chair photographed on the left with some special friends of the lab) and family, we have cleared out a newly renovated lab space to be shared by both the Laboratory for Psychotherapy Science, and the research group of Dr. Jason Burrow-Sanchez! The new lab will have both individual work spaces and room to collaborate with colleagues on research projects. Zac, Brian Pace, and several other close collaborators spent some time in Heidelberg Germany this past summer chatting about and training others in interdisciplinary research between psychologists, computer scientists, and electrical engineers. The trip was funded by the Volkswagen foundation based on an application put together by Dr. Brian Baucom (faculty in Clinical Psych at UU) and Dave Atkins at the University of Washington.
Click the link below for presentation slides, audio processing tools, and contact information! Halley Brown and her colleagues recently received notice that their paper, Problems with the evaluation of mental health providers: Differences in type of patient "drop-out," will be published in Psychiatric Services. This project examined clinical perceptions of drop-out as related to patient satisfaction. Please see below for the abstract. Congratulations Halley!
Objective: Retention or ‘dropout’ is a common metric for evaluating psychotherapy treatment quality, but can be problematic when used to assess provider performance. Provider differences were evaluated in three types of patient dropout: general dropout, ‘bad’ dropout - failure to return and report of negative treatment experiences and outcome, and ‘good’ dropout – failure to return but report of positive treatment experiences and outcome. Methods: Patient utilization records were paired with satisfaction surveys (n=3,054). Binomial mixed effects models were used to examine provider differences in each dropout type. Results: Thirty four percent of treatment episodes resulted in dropout (n=1,032, 34%). Of these, 149 (14%) were classified as bad dropout and 277 (27%) met criteria for good dropout. Providers accounted for approximately 17% of the variance in general dropout, 10% in bad dropout, and 10% in good dropout. Provider rank fluctuated based on type of dropout. Conclusions: Retention-based provider assessment should isolate dropout type, as non-specific metrics may lead to biased estimates of performance. Members of the Lab attended the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) research conference in Philadelphia, PA from November 20th through the 23rd. Lots of great content (e.g. multicultural competence training seminars, suicide prevention and LGBT research symposiums), as well as presentations from our Lab and its collaborators. Zac Imel and Dave Atkins held a symposium, Siri, Rate My Therapist: Interdisciplinary Research on Scaling Up the Evaluation of Psychotherapy, and discussed research and implications of developing a system of providing feedback and ratings to therapists. Brian Pace presented a poster, Why Does Motivational Interviewing Work? A Network Meta-Analysis of Adherence and Outcomes, examining how the various mechanisms of Motivational Interviewing correlate with client outcomes. The conference ended with a collaborators dinner in downtown Philly!
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AuthorThe Laboratory for Psychotherapy Science Archives
August 2019
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