Treatment and prevention efforts guided by psychological theory, research, and practice can have outcomes of greater value than the resources consumed by those efforts-and outcomes superior to those attainable by other means, often at lower costs. How can we make this hope true more often, for more of the clients who need our services, despite severe resource constraints? Routinely reporting the costs, effectiveness, and benefits of psychological interventions from client, practitioner, and societal perspectives is only a beginning. We also need to use descriptive and inferential statistics to measure, report, and analyze the cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of our interventions to discover the strongest determinants of intervention costs and outcomes. The emerging literature on cost-inclusive research in psychology suggests that delivery systems are one primary determinant of costs and outcomes of most interventions, as are the psychological techniques applied.

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改善结果和降低心理干预成本的研究：以最少的代价提供最好的东西。

以心理学理论、研究和实践为指导的治疗和预防工作可以产生比这些工作所消耗的资源更有价值的结果——并且结果优于通过其他方式获得的结果，通常成本更低。尽管资源受到严重限制，但我们如何才能更频繁地为更多需要我们服务的客户实现这一希望？从客户、从业者和社会的角度定期报告心理干预的成本、有效性和收益只是一个开始。我们还需要使用描述性和推理性统计来衡量、报告和分析我们干预的成本效益和成本效益，以发现干预成本和结果的最强决定因素。