Commencing a series of long-overdue posts, here is a link to a final paper from the 3MDR project which I’ve blogged about in the past (see here, and here). This article, which draws on an unusually diverse range of data (researcher-assessed and self-report clinical measures; semi-structured interviews; physiological recordings; words used during therapy sessions; and subjective unit of distress scores), sets out to explore the complex relationships between people, interventions and context and how these interact in particular outcome typologies.

The paper was a long time in the making. Using a mixed methods approach, the various types of data brought together were initially analysed independently, before being subjected to an interpretation of how far these converged and diverged within a series of three therapy outcome typologies. Although the data relate to a relatively small number of therapy participants, the article makes its contribution by microscopically focusing on how different factors in different domains are patterned within different types of response.

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