Recent evidence from clinical practice and research in the field of Clinical Family Psychology highlights the importance of finding reliable tools and methods for assessing couple and family relationships. Expectations from both clinical services and academics are that professionals can collect reliable information on family relationships, even if in daily clinical practice this information is underutilized. These expectations could be fulfilled by the common use of validated measures, tools, and methods that guarantee reliable data about family relationships. However, practitioners infrequently use these kinds of measures, tools, and methods either because of a lack of knowledge or because the tools are not readily accessible. Clear instructions on how to properly assess couple/family relationships within daily clinical practice are needed, especially since psychologists work in different clinical settings and treat different populations.
Given this context, this Research Topic aims to explore research and/or clinical reports that introduce new questionnaires, scales, tools, and methods in order to give reliable and valid clinical information on couple/family relationships to professionals. Research that investigates the implementation and use of such tools and methods in different types of clinical practice, focusing also on different clinical populations or settings, would contribute greatly to the progress in this field. Assessment in family clinical practice could also be effectively empowered by research papers focused on specific intervention protocols, on the roles and strategies that practitioners might use in couple/family relationships and the successful combinations of assessment tools and intervention strategies. Furthermore, this topic aims to explore ethical issues and potential malpractice risks with the use of couple/family relational assessment tools and methods.
We welcome empirical papers related to:
• Assessment of couple/family relationships
• Health family psychology tools and methods
• Psychological couple/family Interventions in clinical settings (public and private hospitals, clinics, outpatient services, etc.)
• Psychometric issues in assessing couple/family relationships
Papers that will be considered in this Research Topic include:
• Studies about the evaluation and/or validation of couple/family assessment tools and methods;
• Original research articles on methods and tools for assessing couple/family relationships;
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses on couple/family relationship assessment;
• Clinical case studies and reports highlighting couple/family relationship assessment.
Recent evidence from clinical practice and research in the field of Clinical Family Psychology highlights the importance of finding reliable tools and methods for assessing couple and family relationships. Expectations from both clinical services and academics are that professionals can collect reliable information on family relationships, even if in daily clinical practice this information is underutilized. These expectations could be fulfilled by the common use of validated measures, tools, and methods that guarantee reliable data about family relationships. However, practitioners infrequently use these kinds of measures, tools, and methods either because of a lack of knowledge or because the tools are not readily accessible. Clear instructions on how to properly assess couple/family relationships within daily clinical practice are needed, especially since psychologists work in different clinical settings and treat different populations.
Given this context, this Research Topic aims to explore research and/or clinical reports that introduce new questionnaires, scales, tools, and methods in order to give reliable and valid clinical information on couple/family relationships to professionals. Research that investigates the implementation and use of such tools and methods in different types of clinical practice, focusing also on different clinical populations or settings, would contribute greatly to the progress in this field. Assessment in family clinical practice could also be effectively empowered by research papers focused on specific intervention protocols, on the roles and strategies that practitioners might use in couple/family relationships and the successful combinations of assessment tools and intervention strategies. Furthermore, this topic aims to explore ethical issues and potential malpractice risks with the use of couple/family relational assessment tools and methods.
We welcome empirical papers related to:
• Assessment of couple/family relationships
• Health family psychology tools and methods
• Psychological couple/family Interventions in clinical settings (public and private hospitals, clinics, outpatient services, etc.)
• Psychometric issues in assessing couple/family relationships
Papers that will be considered in this Research Topic include:
• Studies about the evaluation and/or validation of couple/family assessment tools and methods;
• Original research articles on methods and tools for assessing couple/family relationships;
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses on couple/family relationship assessment;
• Clinical case studies and reports highlighting couple/family relationship assessment.