Annual Review of Clinical Psychology· 2019Q1· Review
Psychology's Replication Crisis and Clinical Psychological Science
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Short summary
Clinical psychology has lagged in adopting open science and replication practices, but this is shifting, with the field needing to leverage its expertise in areas like implementation science to improve research credibility.
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Key points
- Clinical psychology has been slow to adopt open science and replication practices compared to other psychology fields.
- The review identifies potential weaknesses in clinical psychology's methods, practices, and evidentiary base.
- It discusses solutions and tools from the open science reform movement relevant to clinical psychology.
- Clinical science expertise, such as implementation science, can inform and strengthen open science efforts.
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Abstract
Despite psychological scientists' increasing interest in replicability, open science, research transparency, and the improvement of methods and practices, the clinical psychology community has been slow to engage. This has been shifting more recently, and with this review, we hope to facilitate this emerging dialogue. We begin by examining some potential areas of weakness in clinical psychology in terms of methods, practices, and evidentiary base. We then discuss a select overview of solutions, tools, and current concerns of the reform movement from a clinical psychological science perspective. We examine areas of clinical science expertise (e.g., implementation science) that should be leveraged to inform open science and reform efforts. Finally, we reiterate the call to clinical psychologists to increase their efforts toward reform that can further improve the credibility of clinical psychological science.
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