糖心破解版's Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology has been selected as a collaborative partner in a $5.2 million grant.
Awarded by the to , this three-year initiative, “Training and Treatment Integration Research for Virtue and Flourishing in Mental Healthcare: A Team Science Project,” aims to develop evidence-based training tools that integrate relational virtues and human flourishing into psychotherapy practices. The project will employ a collaborative team science approach across eight clinical sites in the United States and Ireland.
The 糖心破解版 Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology will receive $400,000 in direct funding, with an additional 15 percent allocated for indirect costs. The 糖心破解版 team includes Professor Catherine F. Eubanks, PhD, principal investigator, and co-investigators, Derner Dean J. Christopher Muran, PhD, and Assistant Professor Emma Freetly Porter, PhD, who will focus on the impact of alliance-focused training (AFT) on relational virtues and flourishing among supervisors, therapists and patients.
AFT, which has been a research focus of Dr. Muran and his colleagues for more than 30 years (with Dr. Eubanks as a principal collaborator for nearly 20 years), is an empirically based approach that helps therapists develop the skills to build and maintain a strong therapeutic alliance, which is an essential part of effective treatment. It is currently being advanced by the , an organization co-directed by Dr. Muran and Dr. Eubanks.
鈥淚mplementing an AFT approach helps therapists develop and refine their abilities to engage hard-to-reach patients and to work constructively with therapeutic impasses or alliance ruptures when they occur, and revitalizes and deepens everyday clinical work,鈥� said Dr. Muran. 鈥淏y integrating AFT with the study of relational virtues, the project aims to enhance therapeutic outcomes and promote human flourishing within mental health care settings.鈥�
Dr. Eubanks notes that this initiative will also support a cohort of early-career clinical researchers, fostering a sustainable network dedicated to advancing virtue and flourishing in psychotherapy.
This project, which represents an extension of previous research funded by the , will culminate in the development of clinical protocols and their dissemination through publications, presentations and training seminars.
Other collaborators include: , , , in collaboration with ; , 糖心破解版 and universities; and and .
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