Ok fine I'll quote post my critiques. This paper has a lot of strengths and I think the premise and work presented is interesting and very well done. But the authors frame it as addressing the research to practice gap without actually engaging in that literature. 1/ - ThreadSky

kevinmking.bsky.social • 50 days ago

Ok fine I'll quote post my critiques.

This paper has a lot of strengths and I think the premise and work presented is interesting and very well done.

But the authors frame it as addressing the research to practice gap without actually engaging in that literature.

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Reposted from Chris Hopwood

Translating clinical
psychology research to practice could improve mental health care but it is challenging. Researchers often frame the problem in terms of uptake failure by clinicians. But are they doing clinically useful research? In press, American psychologist

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kevinmking.bsky.social•50 days ago

There is a large body of literature on why clinicians of all kinds don't use empirically based treatments in their work. The causes are at the individual, practice, systematic, and social level. There's decades now of work on this, and at least one widely ignored podcast.

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kevinmking.bsky.social•50 days ago

The only work cited here is by and about clinical psychologists, and most of that is not empirical.

Without understanding that broader literature, it's hard to understand what we should make of this work. And that, in my view, makes the potential impact here substantially diminished.
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chopwood.bsky.social•50 days ago

Fair point. The literature on science practice integration is huge and we were trying to address a much narrower question.

chopwood.bsky.social•50 days ago

Maybe you’d like this alternative framing better?: clinical psych research is disproportionately influenced by how easy it is to do studies rather than how likely it is to help solve mental health problems

camhostinar.bsky.social•49 days ago

This is such an important point that can be said about many studies in psychology (not just clinical). Often we let feasibility, timelines, and grant budgets dictate study designs. Your paper could inspire us to be more creative, collaborative, & ambitious to do the most difficult & impactful work.

kevinmking.bsky.social•49 days ago

I definitely think that is more fair.

And also, i think there's tremendous value in basic science. Given what we know about how hard it is to translate research into practice, I'm just not confident that changing how we do most of our basic research is going to have any impact on practice.

kevinmking.bsky.social•49 days ago

And I think continuing to promote the notion that if people would just read one more article or take one more class, that their behavior would change, isn't very helpful.

We know it won't.

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