Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2021 Jul-Aug;50(4):443-449. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2021.1929252. Epub 2021 Jun 7.
Clinical psychological scientists have spent decades attempting to understand "what works for whom" in the context of youth psychotherapy, toward the longstanding goal of personalizing psychosocial interventions to fit individual needs and characteristics. However, as the articles in this Special Issue jointly underscore, more than 50 years of psychotherapy research has yet to help us realize this goal. In this introduction to the special issue, we outline how and why "aspiration-method mismatches" have hampered progress toward identifying moderators of youth psychotherapy; emphasize the need to embrace etiological complexity and scientific humility in pursuing new methodological solutions and propose individual and structural strategies for better-aligning clinical research methods with the goal of personalizing mental health care for youth with diverse identities and treatment needs.
临床心理科学家在青年心理治疗方面，花费了数十年时间试图理解“对谁有效”，以实现将心理社会干预措施个性化以适应个体需求和特征的长期目标。然而，正如本期特刊中的文章共同强调的那样，50 多年的心理治疗研究尚未帮助我们实现这一目标。在本期特刊的介绍中，我们概述了“愿望-方法不匹配”如何以及为何阻碍了识别青年心理治疗调节因素的进展；强调在寻求新的方法学解决方案时，需要接受病因复杂性和科学谦逊，并提出了使临床研究方法更好地与个性化青少年心理健康护理目标保持一致的个体和结构策略，以满足不同身份和治疗需求的青少年的需求。
