The Great Ideas of Clinical Science 17 Principles That Every Mental Health Professional Should Understand pot

[...]... that these 17 concepts embody most, if not virtually all, of the core body of dependable knowledge that the field of clinical psychology has a ­ ccumulated Moreover, we believe that these 17 Great Ideas offer the promise of bridging the ever-widening gulf between researchers and practitioners by offering a lingua franca for enhancing dialogue between these two increasingly isolated groups We hope that. .. Great Ideas comprise the backbone of this knowledge set for the clinical scientist Almost certainly, many thoughtful readers will quarrel with our selection of precisely 17 Great Ideas, not to mention these specific 17 ideas Such debate is healthy, and we eagerly await recommendations from readers concerning candidates for other Great Ideas of clinical science Nevertheless, we humbly believe that most... that the 17 Great Ideas we present here are central to the clinical scientist’s web of belief They are key to how the clinical scientist sees the world; they animate research programs; they help define what are taken as l ­egitimate research questions; they serve as sources of theories; they help define what is and is not legitimate evidence; they assist in devising new therapies or evaluating proferred... and Health Sciences, where he is the head of the Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit William Timberlake, Ph.D., is professor of psychological and brain ­sciences at Indiana University, a core member of the Programs in Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Animal Behavior, and an adjunct professor of biology He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American... practitioners, as well as within these two groups The recent passing of the most influential clinical scientist of the second half of the 20th century, Paul E Meehl of the University of Minnesota (see Waller & Lilienfeld, 2005), affords an auspicious occasion for reminding researchers, practitioners, and s ­ tudents that the field of clinical science does possess a number of basic unifying principles As Meehl (1973)... with Corey Keyes of the in-press book, Handbook of women and depression (Cambridge University Press) Dr Goodman is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and of Div 12, is a former associate editor of the Journal of Family Psychology and is an associate editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology She is dedicated to the ­integration of science and practice in the field of clinical ­psychology... expectations? The list, although not endless, is certainly formidable Understandably, graduate students in clinical psychology and cognate disciplines sometimes leave their courses profoundly confused about the status of their discipline With so much disagreement concerning so many foundational issues, many of them conclude that there is no core body of knowledge in clinical science with which to turn Others... University and is the executive director of The Lazarus Institute in Skillman, New Jersey Previously, he was on the faculties of Stanford, Yale, and Temple University Medical School, and is the recipient of many honors and awards for the multimodal approach­ to therapy that he developed He has authored 17 books and over 350 professional articles and chapters, and has served as president of several professional. .. “thin beer” phase of clinical psychology is a passing fad (p xxi) We concur wholeheartedly with Meehl that such a body of dependable knowledge in clinical science exists The significant ongoing debates regarding specific questions in psychotherapy, assessment, and diagnosis should not overshadow the fundamental domains of agreement among established scholars of clinical science There is, we contend,... diverse domains of knowledge, especially those at different levels of scientific explanation (e.g., physiological, psychological, social) Most or all of the great ideas in this volume, we maintain, have fostered connections among disparate intellectual approaches We regard these 17 Great Ideas as the fundamental concepts—philosophical, conceptual, and methodological that every mental health r ­ esearcher . The Great Ideas of Clinical Science RT384X_C000.indd 1 11/10/06 4:02:32 PM RT384X_C000.indd 2 11/10/06 4:02:32 PM The Great Ideas of Clinical Science 17 Principles That Every Mental Health Professional. intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data e great ideas of clinical science : 17 principles that every mental health professional should understand / Scott O. Lilienfeld,. the proclamation of the Boulder model of clinical psychology over 50 years ago. The scientist practitioner model of clinical psychology was clearly a great idea” that undergirds most of the