2023
DOI: 10.1037/cps0000083
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All good things come in threes: A systematic review and Delphi study on the advances and challenges of ambulatory assessments, network analyses, and single-case experimental designs.

Abstract: This article reviewed 47 methodological publications critically evaluating ambulatory assessments (AA), network analyses (NA), and single-case experimental designs (SCED) for psychotherapy research and practice. To develop a consensus about the most essential advances and challenges, we invited methodological and clinical experts to participate in a subsequent Delphi study. The experts agreed upon 17 essential advances (e.g., AA particularly disentangles within-and between-psychological processes; NA improves … Show more

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“…Because the introduction of the network theory of mental disorders (Borsboom, 2017), the statistical methods underlying it have been enthusiastically embraced by researchers. In the present study, the top consensus statement on network analysis was as follows: “The major advantage of the network analysis approach is that symptoms are conceptualized as mutually interacting, often reciprocally reinforcing elements of a complex network” (Schemer et al, 2022, p. 38). This statement points to an issue that Fried (2020) has already laid out very comprehensively, namely the need to distinguish between theoretical and statistical models.…”
Section: Statistical and Theoretical Modelsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Because the introduction of the network theory of mental disorders (Borsboom, 2017), the statistical methods underlying it have been enthusiastically embraced by researchers. In the present study, the top consensus statement on network analysis was as follows: “The major advantage of the network analysis approach is that symptoms are conceptualized as mutually interacting, often reciprocally reinforcing elements of a complex network” (Schemer et al, 2022, p. 38). This statement points to an issue that Fried (2020) has already laid out very comprehensively, namely the need to distinguish between theoretical and statistical models.…”
Section: Statistical and Theoretical Modelsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More than 18 years ago, Molenaar (2004) published his manifesto on psychology as an idiographic science. In this issue, Schemer et al (2022) report the results of a Delphi survey on three important methodological contributions that could accelerate the uptake of idiographic research in clinical psychology: ambulatory assessment, network analysis and single-case experimental designs (SCED). The results provide a useful insight into the current state of practice in idiographic clinical-psychological research, as they reflected a general enthusiasm about the opportunities idiographic research offers.…”
Section: Statistical and Theoretical Modelsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Single-case experimental designs (SCEDs 1 ) are time-and cost-efficient, yet methodologically sound, prospective idiographic research designs (Nikles et al, 2021) that could be particularly promising to be implemented in routine clinical care (Schemer et al, 2022). Per definition, SCEDs have the following key features: (1) One entity (e.g., a person) that serves as its own control, (2) is observed repeatedly during a certain period of time (for example via experience sampling methodology, ESM 2 ), and (3) under systematic manipulation (e.g., introduction of a psychological treatment) (Vlaeyen et al, 2022).…”
Section: Promoting Idiographic Research With Single-case Designsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…SCEDs seek to estimate meaningful treatment effects for individual patients while safeguarding internal validity and causal inference (Kazdin, 2019;Tanious & Onghena, 2019;Vlaeyen et al, 2020). In combination with experience sampling methods (ESM), the methodological rigor of SCEDs can be further increased (Schemer et al, 2022).…”
Section: Promoting Idiographic Research With Single-case Designsmentioning
confidence: 99%