The Scientific Practice of Professional Psychology

Racial Differences in DSM Diagnosis Using a Semi-Structured Instrument: The Importance of Clinical Judgment in the Diagnosis of African Americans

“…This provides some evidence that semi-structured instruments may achieve reliability by rearranging decisions about cases difficult to locate within the diagnostic system. In short, the "real world" of mental health treatment involves conditions and complexities that may not be well described by instruments designed primarily to achieve satisfactory statistical properties (Trierweiler and Stricker 1998).…”

What is a scientist‐practitioner anyway?

“…I believe, as do the authors of these articles, that the reason is related to a version of science that does not capture the vitality and breadth of the scientific enterprise, and so they offer suggestions that would help to bring science into a position more relevant to, and valued by, practitioners. I believe that many of these suggestions fit within a rubric that I have presented extensively elsewhere (Stricker & Trierweiler, 1995;Trierweiler & Stricker, 1998). In this commentary, I would like to summarize that approach, the local clinical scientist (LCS) model, and then describe how some of these articles fit within that model.…”

Old wine in new bottles

“…I have written extensively about the need for clinical service to include the best of contemporary knowledge and a pervasive scientific attitude (Stricker & Trierweiler, 1995;Trierweiler & Stricker, 1998). Just as professional schools, somewhat counterintuitively, may have been more likely to follow a true Boulder model than traditional programs; it may also be in the professional schools that the matrix model will be given the greatest chance to flourish.…”