<span>Moderation in All Things: A Call to Focus on Individual Differences in Mental Health Treatment Research</span>

The Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) is the gold standard in outcomes research, but RCT data can be used to characterize much more than just the average treatment effects. Research on treatment selection, sudden gains, and patient response patterns highlight the promise of methods that feature the individual in RCT experiments.

Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:

1. Identify how the use of multivariable indexes, derived from large clinic
databases or randomized clinical trials, can promote precision mental health
through the personalized selection of treatment.
2. Describe how the identification of person-specific change points (e.g., sudden
gains) as well as the individuals most sensitive to our interventions (e.g.,
Pliant patients) will sharpen our focus and propel the next phase of mental
health treatment research.

1 CE Credit Offered (this is only 1 credit and so 2 objectives are enough)