Animal models have been used widely to study a broad range of behaviors and disorders. Current animal models provide a window into behavioral mechanisms across the lifespans, allowing researchers to investigate complex epigenetic interactions, cellular processes and the organization and dysregulation of neuronal systems. The present editorial for the special issue of Translational Issues in Psychological Science, "Animal Models as Empirical Foundations for Practice", highlights a few contemporary uses of animal models in psychological science. Here we focus on three articles using animal models to investigate gambling behavior, alcohol abuse and posttraumatic stress related neurobehavioral processes. We close this editorial with the observation that advances in biomedical science will further facilitate the use of animal models as empirical foundations for practice in the psychological sciences.Editor's Note. This is an editorial to the special issue "Animal Models as Empirical Foundations for Practice." Please see the Table of Contents here:

This chapter addresses practitioner researcher agency specific to doctoral education and the post-doctorate research agenda. Perspectives come from both doctoral scholars and doctoral research supervisors of practice-based or practice-led dissertation research for current research insights and examples of dissertation researcher agency specific to U.S. practitioner doctoral programs. Scholar-practitioner agency among the doctoral learning community is defined and discussed as well as the post-doctorate practice-based research agenda.

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This chapter addresses practitioner researcher agency specific to doctoral education and the post-doctorate research agenda. Perspectives come from both doctoral scholars and doctoral research supervisors of practice-based or practice-led dissertation research for current research insights and examples of dissertation researcher agency specific to U.S. practitioner doctoral programs. Scholar-practitioner agency among the doctoral learning community is defined and discussed as well as the post-doctorate practice-based research agenda.