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ReviewClinical psychology review2019

Foundations of idiographic methods in psychology and applications for psychotherapy.

Marilyn L Piccirillo, Thomas L Rodebaugh

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Review in Clinical psychology review, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Marilyn L PiccirilloDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Electronic address: piccirillom@wustl.edu.
Thomas L RodebaughDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

Funding

Longitudinal Risk Factors For Depression and Development of Individual Risk ModelsF31MH115641 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI PICCIRILLO, MARILYN · 2017 to 2018
$74k
NIMH NIH HHS F31 MH115641
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Researchers have long called for greater recognition and use of longitudinal, individual-level research in the study of psychopathology and psychotherapy. Much of our current research attempts to indirectly investigate individual-level, or idiographic, psychological processes via group-based, or nomothetic, designs. However, results from nomothetic research do not necessarily translate to the individual-level. In this review, we discuss how idiographic analyses can be integrated into psychotherapy and psychotherapy research. We examine and review key statistical methods for conducting idiographic analyses. These methods include factor-based and vector autoregressive approaches using longitudinal data. The theoretical framework behind each approach is reviewed and critically evaluated. Empirical examples of each approach are discussed, with the aim of helping interested readers consider how they may use idiographic methods to analyze longitudinal data and psychological processes. Finally, we conclude by citing key limitations of the idiographic approach, calling for greater development of these analyses to ease their successful integration into clinical settings.

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HumansPsychologyPsychotherapyStatistics as TopicIdiographicIndividual-levelMethodologyPsychopathologyPsychotherapy

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PMID30665765
PMCPMC11130566

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