ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a model for conducting research in a private practice setting that the author has developed over the course of her career. The model is founded on a very tight integration of the practitioner’s clinical work and research. In fact, the research enterprise is founded on data that are collected primarily for clinical purposes. The chapter describes the core elements of the model, beginning with a description of the idiographic case formulation approach to treatment that is the foundation of the model. The other core elements of the model are: research skills and training, library access, collaborators and helpers, statistical assistance and software, a treatment agreement in which the patient is asked to provide informed consent for research, access to an institutional review board or some other review mechanism to address ethical issues, collegial support, and solutions to the problems of time and money. The main solution to the time and money issues is intrinsic motivation to conduct research.
