Tag: Mental Health Research

  • Normative Misperception in Clinical Science

    Normative Misperception in Clinical Science

    By Caroline Boyd-Rogers, M.A., University of Iowa The value of peer support and learning is well-known in clinical science, particularly in group-therapy contexts (American Psychological Association, 2019). However, the role of peers and peer perceptions may be relevant to assess in individual therapy settings as well. Research has demonstrated that peer perceptions significantly relate to oneโ€™s…

  • HiTOP and Clinical Psychology Training: A Conversation with Dr. Aidan Wright

    HiTOP and Clinical Psychology Training: A Conversation with Dr. Aidan Wright

    by Matt MattoniTemple University As clinical psychologists, we rely on normed structures and classifications of psychopathology for research, therapy, and assessment. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has long dominated the field, despite flaws of arbitrary cutoffs and boundaries, within-disorder heterogeneity, and between-disorder comorbidity. To address classification-related issues such as these, numerous…

  • Translating Neuroscientific Methods into the Psychology Clinic

    Translating Neuroscientific Methods into the Psychology Clinic

    by Brett Schneider, University of Wisconsin-Madison  Researchers investigating the neural underpinnings of mental illness have been developing tasks designed to capture transdiagnostic symptomology for decades. However, little to none of this work has improved the diagnosis or treatment of mental health disorders (Rogers, 2017). In this article, I will describe how clinicians and researchers can utilize…