Conference banner with a picture on the left and some text on the right. The picture shows on the right hand side a hill with houses along streets winding up, some trees, and a mooring area and water in the front. In the background, tall bridge connects the hill to the other side of the water on the left hand side of the picture. (Probably Bristol, as this is where the conference is) The text on the right announces that the 7th Joint UK SPR and EU-SPR (Society for Psychotherapy Research) Conference will take place 2nd to 5th of September at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK. The conference theme is "Putting Psychotherapy Practice at the Heart of Research: Amplifying the Clients' Voices.
Submissions to the EU-UK @sprofficial.bsky.social #conference open until Friday, 03.04.!
2-5 Sept
University of the West of England (Bristol)
I am working on the workshop and panel submissions for the European Psychotherapy Consortium
www.psychotherapyresearch.org/page/EPoC
#PsychotherapyResearch
![Measuring what matters: How do we know that we do?
Panel at the 56th Int. Annual Meeting, Society for Psychotherapy Research
The presentations in this panel explore two perspectives on the question which constructs could "matter" when measuring outcomes during and at the end of psychological therapies: (i) using conceptual as well as empirical approaches to identify content that captures relevant variation among patients; and (ii) by engaging with stakeholders (including and foremost patients) to identify which constructs provide meaningful or valued information in a given setting.
The first presentation reports on a project that uses empirical methods to develop an ontology for depression measurement. An ontology is a formalised representation of domain knowledge, supporting the comparison and integration of the content of measurement tools. The second presentation focuses on using idiographic methods to identify core elements that matter quantitatively for individual PTSD patients and their trajectories, assimilating principles of clinical case formulations and theoretical models into empirical assessment. The third presentation switches the panel toward the question of meaningful measures. It discusses theoretical frameworks to assess psychotherapy outcomes beyond symptoms, and methods to find agreement on such outcomes. The final talk will present qualitative analyses based on the process evaluation embedded in a multi-centre trial, focusing on the context, mechanisms, and outcomes of the trialled intervention that are relevant for patients.
All presentations are concerned with how we identify and measure outcomes that matter and they stress that this requires considering different voices, values, and evidence. Since the presentations cover different methodologies and application contexts, the panel encourages attendees to discuss what we perceive as "valid" assessments from this perspective.
[titles of individual presentations follow in the posts below]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:necfmyeaeynf2wlfallc6d53/bafkreidi34scamzo537cxcebalyuni4zxclnr7teaeotd42ukcntszzizm)
