Author guidelines for journals could help to promote transparency, openness, and reproducibility

Scientific and professional societies have existed historically to define a field and facilitate communication within it. Two major information dissemination channels have been the hallmark of these activities by societies: annual conventions and publications. The publications developed and disseminated through such societies may be pamphlets intended for useThe author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of many APA staff in the preparation of this chapter. Elizabeth Bulatao of the Office of Communications deserves particular acknowledgment for her extensive research, fact checking, and editorial support in the refinement of this chapter. Barbara McLean, formerly with APA's PsycINFO unit, provided an extensive 130-page source document of dates, facts, figures, names, and text that provided the initial structure of the section of this chapter covering the Psychological Abstracts and PsycINFO. Other APA staff who provided

The majority of cases of clinical depression go unrecognized and untreated, despite the fact that depression is an eminently treatable disorder. The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) recently published a set of clinical practice guidelines focused on depression in primary care settings. The review of the literature on which the guidelines are based is thorough and appropriate and should enhance the detection of depression and the quality of pharmacotherapy for depression. However, the guidelines encourage primary care physicians to provide pharmacotherapy to their depressed patients as the first line of treatment. The wisdom of this recommendation is questioned and revisions to the guidelines are suggested. Specifically, patients should be informed of the broad array of treatment options available and provided with a more balanced presentation of the potential benefits of psychotherapy for depression. Patients should decide which treatment alternative they wish to undergo.

How extensive is health care service delivery via the Internet? Should all practicing professional psychologists immediately acquire audio and video Internet capability so they can interact with their patients via this modality? Five hundred and ninety-six practicing psychologists responded to a survey about their use of the telephone and the Internet in their professional practices. Use of the telephone in the delivery of clinical services was nearly universal. However, only 2% of respondents had utilized the Internet or satellite technology in the delivery of health care. Nonetheless, routine use of such technology in sendee delivery is expected to increase as the technology becomes more universally available and regularly used.Should you be delivering your clinical services via the Internet? Is your practice shrinking, or otherwise being handicapped, because you are not involved in the "telehealth" movement? How extensive is the participation of professional psychologists in the so-called eHealth revolution?Telehealth (or tele medicine) initiatives have been highly publicized in newspapers, in magazines, and on television. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice has featured several sections of articles on telepsychology initiatives (i.e., this issue, April 2000, and December 1998). For the past 5 years, the federal government has put significant amounts of funding into telehealth demonstrations and services. Behavioral health (or psychological services) is one of the leading areas in terms of receiving such funding for telehealth initiatives (Conrad, 1998). Although it is clear that telehealth holds particular promise for making some health care services more readily available and easier to use, it is unclear the extent to which the typical professional psychologist today is involved in such telehealth activities.Critical to understanding the extent of the involvement of professional psychologists in telehealth is the definition of telehealth.Most typically, the definition of telehealth covers real-time service provision that occurs when the patient and the provider are phys-GARY R. VANDENBOS received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Detroit in 1973. He is the executive director of Publications and Communications for the American Psychological Association (APA).

Psychological practice has changed dramatically over the past 125 years. The two world wars both served to stimulate and change the scope of practice for psychologists. We surveyed over 3,000 doctoral psychologists about the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis on their clinical practices. Practice changed from primarily in-office to mostly telepsychology practice over the course of 2 weeks in March of 2020. The long-term effect on professional practice in psychology is not known.

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