Clinical dysfunction and psychosocial interventions: The interplay of research, methods, and conceptualization of challenges

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 25-52

  Kazdin, Alan E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based treatments; Psychological dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ART; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CAREER; CAREER MOBILITY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FUNDING; GUILT; HISTORY; HOPELESSNESS; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; THERAPY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHILD; HISTORY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; METHODS; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL; THERAPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964203402     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: 15485951     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032814-112720     Document Type: Article

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