Scientist Practitioner Foundations Flashcards
What is the Boulder Committee?
A committee tasked with creating a curriculum that balanced scientific research and clinical practice
What is the Scientist-Practitioner Model?
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
What is the Boulder Conference?
The Boulder Conference is a national training conference for psychologists, which aimed to establish standard guidelines for psychological training
What are the pros of the S-P model?
What was recommended at the 1949 Boulder Conference?
- Use scientific methodology in practice, 2. Work with clients using scientifically valid methods, tools, and techniques, 3. Inform clients of scientifically based findings/approaches to their problems, 4. Conduct practice-based research
What are the 5 steps of Evidence-Based Practice?
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)
What is the ‘gold-standard’ in EBP?
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
What is the hierarchy of research strength types?
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
