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In an effort to develop and improve psychological treatments, translational research appears especially promising. In this chapter we present a conceptual framework of translational research, in which we outline different steps in the translational chain from basic research, to experimental psychopathology research, and to clinical trial research. At each step, we summarize which research questions can be answered and which methods are necessary to do so. Based on our conceptual framework, we discuss some challenges of translational research (e.g., replicability and stability of research results) and make recommendations for researchers using this framework.
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Clark (2004) defines therapy experiments as experimental studies comparing different versions of an intervention.
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Cludius, B., Ehring, T. (2023). The Challenge of Translational Research: How Do We Get from Basic Research Findings to Evidence-Based Interventions?. In: Woud, M.L. (eds) Interpretational Processing Biases in Emotional Psychopathology . CBT: Science Into Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23650-1_2
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