Scientist Practitioner Foundations

Question 1

What is the Boulder Committee?

Answer 1

A committee tasked with creating a curriculum that balanced scientific research and clinical practice

Question 2

What is the Scientist-Practitioner Model?

Answer 2

Established by the Boulder Committee (also called Boulder model for this reason) at the 1949 Boulder Conference in the US. Idea of evidence-based practice in clinical psychology; i.e. scientists must be competent researchers as well as clinical practitioners

Question 3

What is the Boulder Conference?

Answer 3

The Boulder Conference is a national training conference for psychologists, which aimed to establish standard guidelines for psychological training

Question 4

What are the 5 steps of Evidence-Based Practice?

Answer 4

AAAAA: 1. ASK (express problem as a clinical question), 2. ACCESS the evidence (find evidence-based resources that can answer the question), 3. APPRAISE the evidence (for its validity), 4. APPLY the evidence (e.g. intervention, assessment tool), 5. ASSESS its effectiveness (re-evaluate evidence and its practical application relevance)

Question 5

What is the ‘gold-standard’ in EBP?

Answer 5

The gold standard in evidence-based practice is manualised (i.e. comes with manual for use/protocol) treatment that has been proven effective in an RCT

Question 6

What is the hierarchy of research strength types?

Answer 6

Meta-analysis/systematic review, RCT, controlled trial w/o randomisation, case-control (comparing those with and w/o condition) or cohort study (study of target group outcomes), systematic review (not of purely RCTs), qual/descriptive study, opinion/consensus of authoritative source