Wright Aidan G C, Hopwood Christopher J
1 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
2 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Assessment. 2016 Aug;23(4):399-403. doi: 10.1177/1073191116654760.
Most commonly used clinical assessment tools cannot fully capture the dynamic psychological processes often hypothesized as core mechanisms of psychopathology and psychotherapy. There is therefore a gap between our theories of problems and interventions for those problems and the tools we use to understand clients. The purpose of this special issue is to connect theory about clinical dynamics to practice by focusing on methods for collecting dynamic data, statistical models for analyzing dynamic data, and conceptual schemes for implementing dynamic data in applied settings. In this introductory article, we argue for the importance of assessing dynamic processes, highlight recent advances in assessment science that enable their measurement, review challenges in using these advances in applied practice, and adumbrate the articles in this issue.
最常用的临床评估工具无法完全捕捉那些常被假设为精神病理学和心理治疗核心机制的动态心理过程。因此，我们关于问题及针对这些问题的干预措施的理论与我们用于理解来访者的工具之间存在差距。本期特刊的目的是通过关注收集动态数据的方法、分析动态数据的统计模型以及在应用场景中实施动态数据的概念框架，将关于临床动态的理论与实践联系起来。在这篇介绍性文章中，我们论证了评估动态过程的重要性，强调评估科学中能够实现对其测量的最新进展，回顾在应用实践中运用这些进展所面临的挑战，并简要介绍本期的文章。
