Virtue & Flourishing Grant team members have first gathering

The Danielsen Institute is excited to be hosting the kickoff meeting for the new virtue and flourishing in mental healthcare grant project on Boston University’s campus October 23rd and 24th (see info below). Over 30 clinical scholars will be gathering to help organize and coordinate the clinical training and treatment work across 8 sites projects, a request for new proposals, early career supports, and numerous other initiatives. This is an impressive gathering of the top psychotherapy researchers and multicultural counseling experts, really great people who are deeply invested in high quality clinical services, training, and research. Here is a link to the website of the project.

 

Training and Treatment Integration Research for Virtue and Flourishing in Mental Healthcare: A Team Science Project

Steven J. Sandage (Boston U) & Jesse Owen (U Denver) – Co-Principal Investigators

Lauren Kehoe (Boston U) – Grant Administrator

Awarded to Boston University by the John Templeton Foundation ($5.2 million; $10.7 million including matching funds over three years)

Executive Summary: This project will develop evidence-based training tools integrated with treatment research on relational virtues and flourishing in psychotherapy through a collaborative team science approach across eight clinical site projects. Emerging research shows therapists want and need training on best practices for implementing these concepts into treatment and hold a common set of concerns that we will address by developing a new core training module enhanced by contextualized training research. These training approaches are combined with ongoing clinical research to generate fresh treatment insights on virtue and flourishing in diverse settings. This novel approach to integrated training and psychotherapy research will assist therapists in learning how to effectively implement virtues and flourishing in mental health treatment. Our formation-based approach to therapist virtue and flourishing makes an innovative contribution to the clinical training of future generations of therapists. Our early career cohort of clinical scholars will help build a network for sustaining this work on virtue and flourishing in psychotherapy into the future. We will produce training and clinical protocols disseminated broadly with dozens of publications, presentations, and training seminars

Collaborative Site Projects

  1. Albert & Jessie Danielsen Institute: A Relational Formation Model of Virtue and Flourishing in Clinical Training and Practice
  2. Denver (Jesse Owen): Testing Training Interventions for Therapist Burnout, Virtues, and Flourishing
  3. McLean Hospital (Mary Zanarini & Brandon Unruh): Therapist Training and Treatment of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder Using Mentalization-based Treatment Plus Flourishing
  4. Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (Todd Farchione): Training and Treatment Research on the Unified Protocol+ Targeting Positive Emotion, Virtue, and Flourishing in Primary Care (Working with Trinity College Dublin)
  5. George Washington University (Cheri Marmarosh): Psychodynamic Professional Psychology Training: Cultivating Student Flourishing and Virtues via a Culture-Centered Model
  6. Adelphi University (Catherine Eubanks & Chris Muran): Relational Virtues and Flourishing in Alliance-Focused Training for Rupture and Repair
  7. Iowa (Martin Kivlighan & Stacey McElroy-Heltzel): Virtue-Based Pre-Group Preparation to Promote Humility and Flourishing in Group Therapy
  8. Indiana U. & U. Utah (Joel Wong & Jeremy Coleman): Training in Gratitude Interventions for Individual and Group Psychotherapy

Team Members

Matteo Bugatti, Oregon State

Laura Captari, The Danielsen Institute, Boston University

Elise Choe, Georgia State

Jeremy Coleman, University of Utah

Mike Constantino, University of Massachusetts -Amherst

Sarah Crabtree, The Danielsen Institute

Joe Currier, University of South Alabama

Don Davis, Georgia State

Catherine Eubanks, Adelphi University

Todd Farchione, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders

Emma Freetly-Porter, Adelphi University

Judy Gerstenblith, The Danielsen Institute

Kelly Gleischman, George Washington University

David Goodman, Boston College

Kristen Hydinger, The Danielsen Institute

Shigeru Iwakabe, Reitsumekian University, Osaka, Japan

Peter Jankowski, Bethel University

Emily Leavitt, University of Massachusetts – Boston

Laura Long, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders

Andres Perez-Rojas, Indiana University

Brad Shuck, University of Louisville

Karen Tao, University of Utah

Ladislav Timulak, Trinity College, Dublin

Brandon Unruh, McLean Hospital, Harvard University

Lauren Zaeske, The Danielsen Institute, Boston University

Mary Zanarini, McLean Hospital, Harvard University

Key Project Distinctives

  1. Collaborative Team Science
  2. Training – Treatment Research Integration
  3. Multicultural Expertise
  4. Leaders in Psychotherapy Research
  5. Dual Factor Framework (Reducing Suffering + Increasing Flourishing)
  6. Clinical, Theoretical, and Methodological Pluralism
  7. Early Career Network of Clinical Scholars
  8. Request for Proposals and awards to early career scholars with collaboration from Matheny Center for Study of Stress, Trauma, and Resilience at Georgia State
  9. Therapist Formation + Clinical Skills Training
  10. Generating Practical Clinical and Training Tools + Scholarly Dissemination