This book offers an approach to psychotherapy research that is based on a partnership between clinicians and researchers. It describes how to conduct practice-oriented research (POR) by presenting studies by eleven groups of who have been involved in POR around the world. The book provides tools to help clinicians be active participants in conducting clinically relevant studies, and set the agenda for future research. It seeks to foster collaboration between researchers and practitioners, generating knowledge that can improve our understanding of the process of change and the impact of psychotherapy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Psychotherapy Research.

Introduction: Fostering collaboration between researchers and clinicians through building practice-oriented research 1. Implementing routine outcome monitoring in clinical practice: Benefits, challenges, and solutions 2. Developing practice-based evidence: Benefits, challenges, and tensions 3. Benefits and challenges in practice-oriented psychotherapy research in Germany: The TK and the QS-PSY-BAY projects of quality assurance in outpatient psychotherapy 4. Practice research network in a psychology training clinic: Building an infrastructure to foster early attachment to the scientific-practitioner model 5. Practice-oriented research: What it takes to do collaborative research in private practice 6. Bridging the gap between research and practice in a clinical and training network: Aigle's Program 7. Therapists and researchers: Advancing collaboration 8. Conducting research and collaborating with researchers: The experience of clinicians in a residential treatment center 9. Brief Strategic Family Therapy: Implementing evidence-based models in community settings 10. Building a practice research network: Obstacles faced and lessons learned at the Center for Collegiate Mental Health 11. APIRE Practice Research Network: Accomplishments, challenges, and lessons learned 12. Building clinicians-researchers partnerships: Lessons from diverse natural settings and practice-oriented initiatives

Louis G. Castonguay is Professor of Psychology at Penn State University, State College, PA, USA. His work focuses on the process, outcome, and training of psychotherapy, as well as on the development of practice-research networks. He has co-edited seven books on psychotherapy integration, psychotherapy research and practice, principles of therapeutic change, insight and corrective experience in psychotherapy, and psychopathology.

J. Christopher Muran is Associate Dean and Professor in the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA. He is also the Director of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, a New York City hospital. His research has concentrated on alliance ruptures and resolution processes, and has resulted in seven book collaborations, including Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance (2000), Self-Relations in the Psychotherapy Process (2001), Dialogues on Difference (2007), and The Therapeutic Alliance (2010).