Solving Clinical Challenges with Research
Abstract You're Not On Your Own Kid: Solving Clinical Challenges with Research is a practical training course for behavior analysts seeking to bridge the gap between research and day-to-day clinical decision-making. Created and led by Matt Harrington, BCBA, the course introduces two proprietary frameworks—the Research Finding Framework and the Key Places Framework—that equip practitioners to identify relevant research efficiently and apply it meaningfully to clinical challenges. Designed for busy professionals, this course emphasizes speed, accuracy, and parsimony while maintaining respect for the complexity of applied settings. Through guided walkthroughs, case studies, and actionable tools, clinicians will learn how to systematically approach clinical problems, locate and evaluate literature quickly, and implement evidence-informed strategies without sacrificing their limited time.
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What you'll learn
- 1Learning Objectives
- 2By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- 3Define the purpose of using research in clinical practice and distinguish between research use for practitioners versus researchers.
- 4Apply the Research Finding Framework to break down a clinical problem into behavioral principles, demographics, and search strategies.
- 5Use Boolean operators and targeted keywords to conduct efficient literature searches in behavior-analytic journals.
- 6Implement the Key Places Framework to quickly extract key information from research articles in under 15 minutes.
- 7Evaluate whether a research article is relevant and applicable to a specific client based on demographic and contextual variables.
- 8Differentiate when to skim versus fully read a research article based on the complexity, risk, and familiarity with the topic.
- 9Demonstrate how to integrate research findings into clinical problem-solving through real-world case examples.
