Abstract
The primary professional goal of clinical psychology is to serve individuals and communities living with or at risk of mental illness. To date, our field has fallen persistently short of this goal, despite decades of research on evidence-based treatments and myriad innovations in psychotherapy research. Brief and low-intensity programs, transdiagnostic approaches, and digital mental health tools have all challenged long-held assumptions of what “psychotherapy” can be, pointing toward novel pathways to effective care. And yet, population-level rates of mental illness are high and rising, access to care remains abysmally low, early treatment dropout among people who do access care is common, and science-backed treatments rarely make it into everyday practice (Kazdin, 2019).
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 119-121 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 16 2023 |
Funding
Jessica L. Schleider has received funding from the National Institute of Health Office of the Director (DP5OD028123), National Institute of Mental Health (R43MH128075), the Upswing Fund for Adolescent Mental Health, the National Science Foundation (2141710), Health Research and Services Association (U3NHP45406-01-00), the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, HopeLab, and the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation. Preparation of this article was supported in part by the Implementation Research Institute (IRI), at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis; through an award from the National Institute of Mental Health (R25MH080916; Jessica L. Schleider is an IRI Fellow)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
