The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

This book integrates philosophy of science, data acquisition methods, and statistical modeling techniques to present readers with a forward-thinking perspective on clinical science. It reviews modern research practices in clinical psychology that support the goals of psychological science, study designs that promote good research, and quantitative methods that can test specific scientific questions. It covers new themes in research including intensive longitudinal designs, neurobiology, developmental psychopathology, and advanced computational methods such as machine learning. Core chapters examine significant statistical topics, for example missing data, causality, meta-analysis, latent variable analysis, and dyadic data analysis. A balanced overview of observational and experimental designs is also supplied, including preclinical research and intervention science. This is a foundational resource that supports the methodological training of the current and future generations of clinical psychological scientists. "The scientific discipline of clinical psychology has witnessed paradigm changes in the prevailing conceptualization of psychopathology and in the rigor of experimental methods to test psychosocial treatments. In parallel, neuroscience approaches to mental illness have become increasingly prominent and technologies to measure psychological constructs over time and across contexts are becoming ubiquitous in psychological research. Altogether, these changes have pushed clinical scientists to incorporate novel research methodologies and analytic approaches. Modern studies of clinical phenomena are often theoretically integrative and assess constructs across levels of measurement, ranging from the molecular to the behavioral. These shifts are fundamental, and necessitate changes in the way modern clinical psychologists design studies, collect data, and draw scientific conclusions. This book is intended to serve as a guide for the next generation of clinical psychologists who will benefit from greater training in statistics, study design, developmental psychopathology, and multi-method approaches"-- Provided by publisher "The scientific discipline of clinical psychology has witnessed paradigm changes in the prevailing conceptualization of psychopathology and in the rigor of experimental methods to test psychosocial treatments. In parallel, neuroscience approaches to mental illness have become increasingly prominent and technologies to measure psychological constructs over time and across contexts are becoming ubiquitous in psychological research. Altogether, these changes have pushed clinical scientists to incorporate novel research methodologies and analytic approaches. Modern studies of clinical phenomena are often theoretically integrative and assess constructs across levels of measurement, ranging from the molecular to the behavioral. These shifts are fundamental, and necessitate changes in the way modern clinical psychologists design studies, collect data, and draw scientific conclusions. This book is intended to serve as a guide for the next generation of clinical psychologists who will benefit from greater training in statistics, study design, developmental psychopathology, and multi-method approaches"-- Résumé de l'éditeur This Forward-thinking Handbook Integrates Philosophy Of Science, Study Design, And Contemporary Quantitative Methods In Clinical Psychology.