2025-06-25 –, Ground floor 4
Clinical psychology is a field that has been slow to take up open science practices. The importance of rigour in this area is clear, with more transparent and replicable methods leading to greater trustworthiness of treatments. Metascience research in clinical psychology would help to establish whether research and patient outcomes are improved as a result of implementing these practices. However, it is unclear how best to assess the ways these practices could improve the quality of clinical psychological science. The uptake of open science practices may be limited by factors including competitive research funding and the challenges of recruitment, and measures of transparency may be hard to assess beyond other aspects of reporting on clinical trials. These practices have not yet been systematically measured in clinical psychology. This poster will highlight areas for metascientific study, as well as practices that may be promising for clinical psychologists to implement.
