A Hitchhiker's Guide to Translation-Ideas for Fostering and Disseminating (Clinical) Translational Psychology
- Autor(en)
- Max Berg, Kristina Suchotzki, Johannes Zimmermann, Christian J. Merz, Katharina Szota, Holger Brandt, Gesa Hartwigsen, Tania M. Lincoln, Andreas Mokros, Miriam Gade, Cornelia Niessen, John Rauthmann, Stefanie Hoehl, Thomas Kubiak, Thomas Franke, Lena Frischlich, Juliane Degner, Ellen Matthies, Jörn R. Sparfeldt, Winfried Rief, Anke Haberkamp
- Abstrakt
Although evidence-based psychological treatments have received wide recognition as established interventions for numerous conditions, challenges concerning their availability, efficacy, and dissemination remain. During the last decades, numerous fields in medicine have improved their treatments by adopting a translational perspective that integrates research from different basic and applied fields. Systematic meta-research does, however, show that only a minority of evidence-based treatments in clinical psychology are grounded in (or derived from) basic psychological research. To facilitate communication between clinical scientists and other psychologists, researchers from the University of Marburg conducted semi-structured interviews with spokespersons of different subfields of the German Psychological Society. From these interviews, recommendations, and ideas for improving translational psychology were collected. This integrative article is the result of an iterative consensus-building process with the interviewed experts. It summarizes insights and derives useful guidance for novel translational research projects. We discuss the opportunities and challenges of translational psychology and provide explicit instruction on how to transfer basic psychological research into applied research and vice versa. We provide recommendations regarding the incorporation of translational psychology into higher education curricula. Additionally, we explore ways to enhance scientific integrity and keep pace with rapid digital transformation in our field. Finally, we present a concise overview of science dissemination and explore how translational psychology contributes to the resolution of pressing (societal) issues.
- Organisation(en)
- Fakultät für Psychologie, Institut für Psychologie der Entwicklung und Bildung
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Philipps Universität Marburg, Universität Kassel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Universität Leipzig, Universität Hamburg, FernUniversität in Hagen, Medical School Berlin, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Universität zu Lübeck, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Universität des Saarlandes, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU), Universität Witten/Herdecke, Universität Osnabrück
- Journal
- European Psychologist
- ISSN
- 1016-9040
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000555
- Publikationsdatum
- 2025
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 501005 Entwicklungspsychologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Allgemeine Psychologie
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/9e350483-9119-4b89-a9a7-5ab3aec556c0