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Introduction to the Special Issue: Experimental Therapeutics in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology: Identifying
1Department of Psychology, Center for Youth Development and Intervention, the University of Alabama.
Abstract:
The premise of experimental therapeutics is that one can (a) target a process, or mechanism, underlying psychopathology and (b) that change in said mechanism can cause clinical improvement. Targeting specific mechanisms may permit more effective and personalized medicine. The experimental therapeutics approach holds promise for improving the potency and efficiency of treatments for childhood psychopathology, and for advancing our understanding of the factors that both cause and sustain psychopathology. This special issue presents new research utilizing this framework and offers guidelines for the application of the experimental therapeutics framework.
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