All aspects of your participation in therapy at The Psychological Clinic—including the scheduling of appointments, contents of therapy or testing sessions, all contents of records, and outcomes of therapy or testing—is confidential and protected by state and federal law.
Research
The Psychological Clinic has several research projects occurring at any given time (examples provided below), and the structure of the clinic is organized to not only provide effective care for our clients, but also to facilitate basic and applied research. We believe that research and practice can go together, and we have taken a number of steps to make this process fairly seemless.
For example, two very thorough, reliable, and valid diagnostic interviews (similar to those often used in clinical trials) are administered to all clients prior to treatment. This not only allows us to make well-informed treatment decisions and direct our clients to the most appropriate services for their problems, but also facilitates research on specific conditions (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder or borderline personality disorder).
Similarly, outcome is assessed for every adult client at every session using a brief questionnaire that is instantaneously scored and the information is available to our therapists prior to meeting with their client. This allows us to not only closely monitor our effectiveness with clients session-by-session, but also allows us to conduct research on therapy outcome and the complex session-by-session processes of psychotherapy.