There has been low confidence in the replicability and reproducibility of published psychological findings. Previous work has demonstrated that a population of psychologists exists that have used ...questionable research practices (QRPs), or behaviors during data collection, analysis, and publication that can increase the number of false-positive findings in the scientific literature. Across two survey studies, we sought to estimate the current size of the QRP-using population of American psychologists and to identify if this sub-population of scientists is stigmatized. Using a self-report direct estimator, we estimate approximately 18\% of American psychologists have used at least one QRP in the past 12 months. We then demonstrate the use of two additional estimators: the unmatched count estimate (an indirect self-report estimator) and the generalized network scale up method (an indirect social network estimator). Additionally, attitudes of psychologists towards QRP users, and ego network data collected from self-reported QRP users, suggest that QRP users are a stigmatized sub-population of psychologists. Together, these findings provide insight into how many psychologists are using questionable practices and how they exist in the social environment.
This award is intended to recognize outstanding independent practitioners in psychology. Nominations are considered for psychologists working in any area of clinical specialization, health services ...provision, or consulting, and services provided to any patient population or professional clientele in an independent setting. Services provided to diverse client groups or patient populations, including but not limited to children/adolescents/adults/older adults, urban/rural/frontier populations, minority populations, and persons with serious mental illness are considered. Contributions are judged distinguished by virtue of peer recognition, advancement of the public's recognition of psychology as a profession, relevant professional association honors, or other meritorious accomplishments denoting excellence as a practitioner, including advancement of the profession. The 2022 recipients of the APA Professional Contributions Awards were selected by the 2021 Board of Professional Affairs (BPA). As a scholar-practitioner and health disparities researcher, Delishia M. Pittman has prioritized the mental health needs of African-descended persons across the diaspora in practice, training, and scholarship. She was the first African American, board-certified counseling psychologist in the District of Columbia and founder of The Wellness Collective, a boutique therapy collective that centers the psychological health and well-being of the Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) community, delivering more than 4,000 hours of therapy in the past year to BIPOC individuals and couples. As tenured faculty in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at George Washington University, she took up antiracism work which has resulted in several important achievements, including the adoption of a department-wide antiracism statement; implementation of antiracism working groups to examine and redress antiracist policies, practices, and procedures across the training program of the department; implementation of two mandatory antiracism convocation experiences in the curriculum; and a movement to decolonize every course and diversify the voices used in the training of counselors for the profession. Dr. Pittman's contributions to the field of psychology are exemplary, and she deserves to be honored for her tireless work. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
Although several studies have examined the specific instruments and procedures used by school psychologists when conducting comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations, the last one was published ...over 20 years ago (viz., Wilson & Reschly, 1996). Given the substantial theoretical and practical advances in assessment since then, the purpose of the current study was to examine the test use and assessment practices of contemporary school psychologists in the United States. Data from the 2017 National Survey of Assessment Practices in School Psychology revealed that test use and assessment practices have evolved significantly. Much of this change consists of the substitution of tests and practices with limited reliability and validity with those with greater psychometric support. Results of this study also indicate that school psychologists regularly conduct multi-method assessments to prevent, identify, monitor, and remediate child and adolescent learning difficulties and other presenting problems in the schools.
The topic of missing data has been receiving increasing attention, with calls to apply advanced methods of handling missingness to counseling psychology research. The present study sought to assess ...whether advanced methods of handling item-level missing data performed equivalently to simpler methods in designs similar to those counseling psychologists typically engage in. Results of an initial preliminary analysis, an analysis using real-world data, and a series of simulation studies were used in the present investigation. Results indicated that available case analysis, mean substitution, and multiple imputation had similar results across low levels of missing data, though in data with higher levels of missing data and other problems (e.g., small sample size or scales with weak internal reliability) mean substitution produced inflation of correlation coefficients among items. The present results support the use of available case analysis when dealing with low-level item-level missingness.
