Sala Meeting, edificio 15, piano 3, ore 13:30-14:30

The practice-research divide has been a problem in medical and psychological science and practice for many years. It can take a decade or more for new knowledge to make its way into clinical practice. One of the reasons for this divide is the uneasy relationship between clinicians and researchers. Researchers are sometimes critical of clinicians for not taking up new interventions and technologies. Clinicians are often skeptical and wary of researchers and their intentions. This distrust has resulted in clinicians and researchers not collaborating to advance clinical practice and research. Researchers typically do not listen to clinicians’ and their accumulated knowledge, and clinicians often do not read the latest research. One means of bridging this gap is to develop practice-research networks so that clinicians and researchers have a space and opportunity to communicate. In this brief presentation I talk about the development of the Psychotherapy-Practice Research Network (PPRNet) in Canada. I discuss how the network got off the ground, what it does to disseminate knowledge. In particular, the PPRNet engages in knowledge translation – the exchange of knowledge between clinicians and researchers so that research is informed by clinical experience and so that clinical practice is informed by research.