Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Clinical Psychological Science
- Part II Observational Approaches
- Part III Experimental and Biological Approaches
- Part IV Developmental Psychopathology and Longitudinal Methods
- Part V Intervention Approaches
- Part VI Intensive Longitudinal Designs
- Part VII General Analytic Considerations
- 28 Reproducibility in Clinical Psychology
- 29 Meta-Analysis
- 30 Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis
- 31 Statistical Inference for Causal Effects in Clinical Psychology
- 32 Analyzing Nested Data
- 33 Missing Data Analyses
- 34 Machine Learning for Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuroscience
- Index
- References
28 - Reproducibility in Clinical Psychology
from Part VII - General Analytic Considerations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Clinical Psychological Science
- Part II Observational Approaches
- Part III Experimental and Biological Approaches
- Part IV Developmental Psychopathology and Longitudinal Methods
- Part V Intervention Approaches
- Part VI Intensive Longitudinal Designs
- Part VII General Analytic Considerations
- 28 Reproducibility in Clinical Psychology
- 29 Meta-Analysis
- 30 Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis
- 31 Statistical Inference for Causal Effects in Clinical Psychology
- 32 Analyzing Nested Data
- 33 Missing Data Analyses
- 34 Machine Learning for Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuroscience
- Index
- References
Summary
Recent developments in psychology and related disciplines have highlighted common research practices that fail to lead to reliable and reproducible effects. In clinical psychology, the use of such practices has had negative consequences for public health. This chapter reviews the foundations of the scientific method, describes the origins and impacts of the reproducibility problem in that context, and makes recommendations for generating reproducible findings in clinical psychology.
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