John R. Weisz

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John R. Weisz (born 1945) is Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences in the Psychology Department of Harvard University, and Professor in Harvard Medical School. His randomized controlled effectiveness trials and meta-analyses of youth psychotherapies have bridged a gap between university labs and clinical practice. By developing and testing treatments with clinically referred youths, treated by practitioners, in practice settings, he has focused attention on the need to know how well research-derived interventions fare in real-world clinical care. His work has shown that the effects of treatments tested in laboratory contexts drop markedly when the treatments are tested in clinical care settings (an effect he labels “the implementation cliff”), but that research-derived, evidence-based youth psychotherapies significantly outperform usual clinical care.