Background Increasing rates of mental health problems among adolescents are of concern.
Teens who are most in need of mental health attention are reluctant to seek help. A better …

Clinical science seems to have reached a tipping point. It appears that a new paradigm is
beginning to emerge that is questioning the validity and utility of the medical illness model …

The alliance-outcome relationship has been consistently linked to positive treatment
outcomes irrespective of psychotherapy modality. However, beyond its general links to …

This volume introduces the statistical, methodological, and conceptual aspects of mediation
analysis. Applications from health, social, and developmental psychology, sociology …

Mediating variables are prominent in psychological theory and research. A mediating
variable transmits the effect of an independent variable on a dependent variable …

There has been enormous progress in psychotherapy research. This has culminated in
recognition of several treatments that have strong evidence in their behalf. Even so, after …

We present a vision of clinical science, based on a conceptual framework of intervention
development endorsed by the Delaware Project. This framework is grounded in an updated …

Group-based social skills interventions (GSSIs) are widely used for treating social
competence among youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but their efficacy is unclear …

Depression in youth is prevalent and disabling and tends to presage a chronic and recurrent
course of illness and impairment in adulthood. Clinical trial research in youth depression …

For decades the development of evidence-based therapy has been based on experimental
tests of protocols designed to impact psychiatric syndromes. As this paradigm weakens, a …