> Frank & Graeme
>
> Re the Core rationale paper I passed you on Friday - I've been
> talking with John and in light of the fact that it looks like we
> will be sending a number of papers to BJP and BJCP in the near
> future, John suggested we use the rationale paper to disseminate to
> practitioners as a glossy rather than submit to a journal. This tact
> has a number of advantages: 1. It means we can say anything we like
> without having to deal with reviewers 2. We can cite it immediately
> as a PTRC briefing 3. It gets round the uncomfortable issue of
> 'selling' a product in a non-empirical paper (later papers on the
> empirical basis of measure will be fine) 4. It will be consistent
> with out tact of collaborating and prioritising practitioners rather
> than putting something in an academic journal - [I think MHF will
> like this] 5. We can fund the distribution of this to any lists of
> practitioners we know of and thereby reach a much wider audience.
> This is, after all, what we want to do.
>
> I thought I'd let you know this now as it might influence comments.
> What do you think?
>
> To all others - you'll gather this relates to the ratiionale paper
> which will also come your way very soon......
>
I can see the logic and it would be easily linked to WWW and Email
delivery (latter is easy to set up using an autoresponder from my
server for the now rare people who do have Email but not WWW).
Difficult to comment more definitively without seeing it.
Chris
Chris Evans, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy,
Locum Consultant to the
Prudence Skynner Family Therapy Clinic,
St. George's Hospital Medical School, London University
C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk http://psyctc.sghms.ac.uk/
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