Research and practice in health psychology.

Abstract

The task force on research and practice in health psychology responded to three presentations on important issues. It was posited that clinical health psychology may represent the ideal specialty for scientist-practitioner training. There are exciting, important questions regarding health problems, Requests for reprints should be sent to

Single-case research designs and the scientist-practitioner ideal in applied psychology.

“…Baker & Benjamin, 2000;Raimy, 1950). It has been adopted by other applied areas, such as counseling psychology (e.g., Corrie & Callahan, 2000;Vespia & Sauer, 2006), health psychology (e.g., Sheridan et al, 1989), neuropsychology (e.g., Rourke, 1995), organizational and personnel psychology (e.g., Jex & Britt, 2008), and school (educational) psychology (e.g., Edwards, 1987).…”