Full Description
Mental health problems impose a staggering worldwide public health burden. Regrettably, whereas many sciences have been progressing for centuries (e.g., biology, chemistry) it is only recently that the strategies of science have been applied to the field of clinical psychology. At this relatively early stage in the science of clinical psychology, the majority of work is ahead of us, and as such the prepared investigator must be familiar with the full portfolio of modern research strategies-a set of 'directions' for getting from 'here' to 'there.' To continue to move the science of clinical psychology forward, investigators benefit when they systematically rely on research strategy "routes" that achieve favorable balances between scientific rigor and clinical relevance.
With this need in mind, The Oxford Handbook of Research Strategies for Clinical Psychology has recruited some of the field's foremost experts to explicate the essential research strategies currently used across the modern clinical psychology landscape that maximize both precision and significance. Chapters in this volume address design, measurement, and analytic strategies for clinical psychology, including comprehensive coverage of:
- effective laboratory methods in experimental psychopathology, single-case experimental designs, small pilot trials, the randomized controlled trial, adaptive and modular treatment designs, and dissemination methods and models
- change measurement, observational coding, measurement of process variables across treatment, structural and functional brain imagining, and experience sampling data collection methods
- statistical power, correlation and regression, randomized clinical trial data analysis, conventions in mediation and moderation analysis, structural equation modeling, meta-analytic techniques, item-response theory, and the appropriate handling of missing data.
The book concludes with an integrative summary of research strategies addressed across the volume, and guidelines for future directions in research methodology, design, and analysis that will keep our young science moving forward in a manner that maximizes scientific rigor and clinical relevance.
Contents
1. A Place for Research Strategies in Clinical Psychology ; Jonathan S. Comer and Philip C. Kendall ; Part One: Design Strategies for Clinical Psychology ; 2. Laboratory Methods in Experimental Psychopathology ; Michael J. Zvolensky, John P. Forsyth, and Kirsten Johnson ; 3. Single Case Experimental Designs and Small Pilot Trial Designs ; Kaitlin Gallo, Jonathan S. Comer, and David H. Barlow ; 4. Randomized Controlled Trial: Basics and Beyond ; Philip C. Kendall, Jonathan S. Comer, and Candice Chow ; 5. Dissemination and Implementation Science: Research Models and Methods ; Rinad S. Beidas, Tara Mehta, Marc Atkins, Bonnie Solomon, and Jenna Merz ; 6. Virtual Environments in Clinical Psychology Research ; Nina Wong and Deborah C. Beidel ; Part Two: Measurement Strategies for Clinical Psychology ; 7. Assessment and Measurement of Change Considerations in Psychotherapy Research ; Randall T. Salekin, Matthew A. Jarrett, and Elizabeth W. Adams ; 8. Observational Coding Strategies ; David J. Hawes, Mark R. Dadds, and Dave S. Pasalich ; 9. Designing, Conducting, and Evaluating Therapy Process Research ; Bryce D. McLeod, Nadia Islam, and Emily Wheat ; 10. Structural and Functional Brain Imagining in Clinical Psychology ; Andrew J. Gerber and Marlen Z. Gonzalez ; 11. Experience Sampling Methods in Clinical Psychology ; Philip S. Santangelo, Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer, and Timothy J. Trull ; Part Three: Analytic Strategies for Clinical Psychology ; 12. Statistical Power: Issues and Proper Applications ; Helena Chmura Kraemer ; 13. Multiple Regression: Basics and Beyond for Clinical Scientists ; Stephen G. West, Leona S. Aiken, Heining Cham, and Yu Liu ; 14. Statistical Methods for Use in the Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials Utilizing a Pretreatment, Posttreatment, Follow-up (PPF) Paradigm ; Kendra L. Read, Philip C. Kendall, Mathew M. Carper, and Joseph R. Rausch ; 15. Evaluating Treatment Mediators and Moderators ; David P. MacKinnon, Ginger Lockhart, Amanda N. Baraldi, and Lois A. Gelfand ; 16. Structural Equation Modeling: Applications in the Study of Psychopathology ; Erika J. Wolf and Timothy A. Brown ; 17. Meta-analysis in Clinical Psychology Research ; Andy P. Field ; 18. Item-response Theory ; Lynne Steinberg and David Thissen ; 19. Missing Data in Psychological Science ; Patrick E. McKnight and Katherine M. McKnight ; Part Four: Matters of Responsible Research Conduct in Clinical Psychology ; 20. Ethical Considerations in Clinical Psychology Research ; Gerald P. Koocher ; 21. Clinical Research with Culturally Diverse Populations ; Frederick T.L. Leong and Zornitsa Kalibatseva ; Part Five: Conclusion ; 22. Decades not Days: The Research Enterprise in Clinical Psychology ; Philip C. Kendall and Jonathan Comer
