Recent evidence from clinical practice and research in the field of clinical health psychology highlights the importance of finding reliable ways of validating and empowering assessment techniques currently used in the field. Expectations from both society and academic communities is for professionals to be able to guarantee competency and high levels of reliability, but often these expectations cannot be met in the daily clinical practice. This expectation could be met by a constant use of validated outcome measures, a practice that has proven to improve patient outcomes. However, practitioners infrequently use these tools, because of lack of knowledge or lack of clear instructions on how to effectively use them within their daily practice when working in different clinical environment and treating different populations, or because of the non-openness of the instrument.
Starting from this specific background, this Research Topic aims at presenting research that introduces new questionnaires, scales, and semi-structured interviews that have been designed to give health care professionals reliable and valid psychometric tools with a clinical impact. Research that investigates the implementation and use of such measures in different types of clinical practice, or with focus on different clinical population would also contribute greatly to the progress in this field. Assessment techniques in clinical practice could also be effectively empowered by research focusing on specific protocols, discuss the roles that practitioners might play, describe successful combination of assessment and intervention strategies, explores ethical issues, and potential malpractice risks.
We welcome empirical papers applied, but not limited to, the fields of:
• Clinical psychology
• Health psychology
• Rehabilitation psychology
• Neuropsychology
• Psychological interventions in traditional clinical settings (public and private hospitals
clinics, services, etc.)
• Psychometric
Types of paper that will be included in this Research Topic include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Studies looking at validation and cost-effectiveness
• Original research articles from both experimental and non-experimental (observational)
study designs
• Systematic reviews and Meta-analyses
• Clinical case studies and reports
• Perspective articles
Recent evidence from clinical practice and research in the field of clinical health psychology highlights the importance of finding reliable ways of validating and empowering assessment techniques currently used in the field. Expectations from both society and academic communities is for professionals to be able to guarantee competency and high levels of reliability, but often these expectations cannot be met in the daily clinical practice. This expectation could be met by a constant use of validated outcome measures, a practice that has proven to improve patient outcomes. However, practitioners infrequently use these tools, because of lack of knowledge or lack of clear instructions on how to effectively use them within their daily practice when working in different clinical environment and treating different populations, or because of the non-openness of the instrument.
Starting from this specific background, this Research Topic aims at presenting research that introduces new questionnaires, scales, and semi-structured interviews that have been designed to give health care professionals reliable and valid psychometric tools with a clinical impact. Research that investigates the implementation and use of such measures in different types of clinical practice, or with focus on different clinical population would also contribute greatly to the progress in this field. Assessment techniques in clinical practice could also be effectively empowered by research focusing on specific protocols, discuss the roles that practitioners might play, describe successful combination of assessment and intervention strategies, explores ethical issues, and potential malpractice risks.
We welcome empirical papers applied, but not limited to, the fields of:
• Clinical psychology
• Health psychology
• Rehabilitation psychology
• Neuropsychology
• Psychological interventions in traditional clinical settings (public and private hospitals
clinics, services, etc.)
• Psychometric
Types of paper that will be included in this Research Topic include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Studies looking at validation and cost-effectiveness
• Original research articles from both experimental and non-experimental (observational)
study designs
• Systematic reviews and Meta-analyses
• Clinical case studies and reports
• Perspective articles