Michael Barkham, Ph.D.

Michael Barkham, Ph.D., is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK and has spent the past 40 years researching the processes and outcomes of psychological therapies, in particular promoting the measurement of patient outcomes in routine practice. He espouses the paradigm of practice-based evidence together with pragmatic randomized controlled trials as a route to delivering a more robust and relevant evidence-base for psychological therapies. He was the recipient of the 2019 Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) Senior Distinguished Research Career Award and, together with Wolfgang Lutz and Louis Castonguay, was editor of the 7th edition of Bergin and Garfield’s Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change (2021).