Despite repeated calls within our field, fathers are still commonly not involved in
pediatric psychology research and treatment (Phares, Lopez, Fields, Kamboukos & Duhig, 2005) and siblings rarely receive any attention.
Rates of participation for clinical child and
pediatric psychology research: Issues in methodology
Such discrepancies may have occurred because these measures are more often used in clinical settings rather than in research settings and, therefore, have received little attention in
the pediatric psychology research literature.
Not exact matches
Based on the
research questions at hand, the Center draws from CHOP and University of Pennsylvania - based expertise in emergency medicine;
pediatric trauma; surgery; nursing; social work;
pediatric and adolescent medicine; epidemiology and biostatistics; bioengineering; computational engineering;
psychology; behavioral science; communications; and health education.
He is the director of cognitive - behavioral
psychology at the clinical and
research program in
pediatric psychopharmacology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an associate clinical professor of
psychology in the psychiatry department at Harvard University Medical School.
As noted by Kazdin (2005), we may need to identify the different purposes of assessment in the field of
pediatric psychology including diagnosis, prognosis, assessing treatment outcome, case management, and basic
research (Pelham et al., 2005) and then develop evidence - based criteria for each of these purposes.
Family assessment is a challenging endeavor, yet vital in the pursuit of increasing our knowledge within
pediatric psychology, both clinically and in
research.
Their individual clinical and
research areas broadly represent the field of
pediatric psychology and they were drawn from across the nation with two international representatives.