Introduction to the special issue: The National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA's) Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS).

Seven of the articles in this special issue of Psychology & Addictive Behaviors compose the 1st comprehensive look at an important collaborative research endeavor of the National Inst on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study (DATOS). This introduction highlights some of the key findings of DATOS that are reported in this special issue. Also highlighted are areas that future DATOS studies should help illuminate about the effectiveness of drug abuse treatment as it is typically practiced. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

From the editor...

This editorial discusses the current issue of the International Journal of Play Therapy. In this issue, there are two special sections which feature research studies with an emphasis on play therapy strategies. The first special section focuses on the Color-Your-Life (CYL) technique--a play therapy tool developed by Kevin O'Connor. The other special section features the winner of the Association for Play Therapy's Student Research Award--a study of the effects of family play. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The (re)discovery of motor development: Learning new things from an old field.

The articles in this special issue reflect a resurgence of interest in motor development. Just as the classic studies of McGraw and Gesell helped to establish the scientific study of human ontogeny, so contemporary studies of motor processes can contribute to our overall understanding of development. The articles in this issue illustrate several general principles: (a) The developing system is the proper unit for study, (b) the task assembles behavior, (c) developmental processes are nonlinear, (d) action and perception form an inseparable loop, and (e) developmental studies should look at variability as well as modal patterns. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Short and long views of integrative data analysis: Comments on contributions to the special issue.

The author comments on the potential of integrative data analysis (IDA) as a new methodological activity and on some of the topics that were discussed in the 5 articles in this special issue. One topic is the extent to which IDA will be used to provide conclusive summaries regarding the strength of evidence for well-specified questions versus to provide new information that goes beyond the simple sum of individual studies. Another is the meaning of variances of effects that are observed over studies and sample strata. A 3rd is the potential to enhance understanding of construct validity by fitting measurement models described in the special issue. The author concludes by recommending critical examination of model-based inferences from IDA through sensitivity analyses and by noting that IDA can promote collaboration and networks that yield data that are more amenable to integrated analyses in the future. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Introduction to the special issue on methodological issues in psychological assessment research.

Our primary goal in this special issue on research methodology is to explore methodological issues across a broad range of psychological assessment research and to highlight pitfalls and problems that often plague researchers engaged in this pursuit. We believe that the methodological articles in this special issue will serve as an important resource for future research in the field of personality assessment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Group-based interventions for trauma survivors: Introduction to the special issue.

This special issue of Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice is dedicated to group-based interventions for trauma survivors. Given the severely traumatic and widespread nature of the terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001, it is hoped that this special issue will play a timely and illustrative role in facilitating the design and implementation of effective postdisaster interventions. More generally, as illustrated by the breadth of treatments contained in this special issue, group-based interventions constitute a promising modality for providing efficient and efficacious postdisaster intervention to a wide variety of trauma-exposed populations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Music cognition and performance: An introduction.

Introduces this issue of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology as focusing on musical cognition and performance. There are a series of articles reporting on explorations of various aspects of the cognitive processing of music. Other articles focus on different aspects of the perceptual and cognitive processing of music. Also represented in this special issue is work looking at the emotional aspect of musical behaviour. Finally, this special issue contains two series of experiments related to musical performance, each, interestingly enough, with a developmental slant. Overall, the articles in this special issue provide insight into how it is that people perceive and produce complex auditory information, and are suggestive about what research in musical cognition can say about psychological processing in general. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Les femmes et la psychologie : D'hier à demain.

The articles featured in the current issue of Canadian Psychology present the framework of this special issue, which also has a special section on women and psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Foreword.

Recognizes the individuals who aided in publishing this monograph as a special issue of the journal. The support of the American Cancer Society is also acknowledged. Information is given on how to obtain additional copies of this issue. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reactivity of alcoholics and nonalcoholics to drinking cues.

An interest in reducing relapse among alcoholics has led to a consideration of stimulus control factors in drinking. Research suggests that through classical conditioning alcoholics may develop reactions to cues previously associated with drinking and that these reactions might be an important determinant of relapse. Although this model indicates the potential for cue exposure treatment methods to alter conditioned reactions, data on reactivity to alcohol cues by alcoholics and nonalcoholics are scarce. Two studies are presented that address this issue and provide evidence for the validity of salivation as a measure of cue reactivity. Alcoholics and nonalcoholics were presented with the sight and smell of their preferred brand of alcohol and a control beverage. Self-report, behavioral, and psychophysiological data were collected. Alcoholics salivated more than nonalcoholics to alcohol cues and more to alcohol than to the control beverage. Alcoholics salivated differentially to cues, whereas nonalcoholics did not. Patterns of reactivity were consistent with a conditioning model. Both groups reported greater urges to drink alcohol in the presence of alcohol, but neither group reported more thoughts about alcohol in the presence of alcohol as compared with the control beverage. Implications of salivary reactivity for theory and treatment are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Implicit memory research in 1996: Introductory remarks.

This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology is titled "Implicit Memory Research in 1996." Implicit memory now occupies centre stage in the study of memory, and as such, the editor of the journal saw the need for a special issue. In this special issue, several articles investigate priming on perceptually-cued tests and contribute to our understanding of the nature of implicit retrieval on perceptually-cued tests. The study of priming has been dominated by the use of verbal tasks, like the tasks used in the previous articles. However, priming can be revealed in many ways, and it is important that researchers explore the nature of priming in a variety of experimental situations so as to broaden our knowledge and understanding of implicit memory. Several articles in this special issue do this. Each article stands on it own and makes a novel and important contribution. At the same time, the articles share similarities which also helped to determine the order of presentation of the articles in the issue. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Introduction to the Special Issue on Gossip.

This article represents the introduction to a special issue of the Review of General Psychology on gossip. All of the articles in this special issue argue that gossip is purposeful and important to social functioning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Guest editor's introduction: Current issues in the assessment of marital and family systems.

Introduces the articles appearing in this issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, (1989[Dec], Vol 3[2]). This special issue on marital and family assessment grew out of a symposium presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Society for Research on Human Development, held in New Orleans in March, 1988. Because many members of this interdisciplinary organization were exploring new approaches to understanding the family, the focus of the symposium was on several assessment-related issues facing both researchers and clinicians. Participants were selected because of their special expertise concerning designated substantive issues in family measurement. Each panel member was asked to discuss the issue from a conceptual vantage point and to illustrate the discussion with data from his or her research program. The conference papers served as the starting point for this volume; subsequently, papers were exchanged among subsets of symposium participants and were refined for inclusion in this special issue. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Special issue on women, psychoanalysis, and gender: Editors' introduction.

Introduces this special issue of Psychoanalytic Psychology. This special issue on Women, Psychoanalysis, and Gender is a commemoration of the capability, influence, acceptance, and authority of women in the community of psychoanalysis. In this issue, we turn to both new and more established voices in an expanded arena of gender, culture, and psychoanalysis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Introduction to the special issue on the self and social identity.

This article describes the special issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP), which is the result of a joint undertaking by the three sections of JPSP. This makes it different from previous special sections or issues of the journal in that rather than relying on the generous services of a guest editor, the same editorial team that handles the regular journal issues has originated this special issue, as well, thus conveying a sense of "business as usual." Our major reason for the present initiative was to highlight the essential unity of personality and social psychology as a field of science. The topic choice for the present special issue was dictated by its relevance and interest to the field of personality and social psychology as a whole, across its various partitions and subdivisions. The articles in the special issue amply reflect the naturalness with which the self and social identity theme transcends the boundaries of JPSP sections. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Then and now: Recruitment, definition, diversity, and positive attributes of same-sex populations.

It is not my intent to critique individual contributions in this special issue but to assess scholarly progress since the last special issue devoted to sexual orientation in Developmental Psychology (Patterson, 1995). Because not all steps forward can be catalogued in this limited forum, I focus on several long-standing challenges faced by developmental scientists as they investigate same-sex sexuality: recruitment and definition of same-sex populations, developmental diversity of same-sex oriented individuals, and "clinical traps" created by early research on same-sex populations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Understanding binge drinking: Introduction to the special issue.

Widespread interest in binge drinking, demonstrated by scientists, public policymakers, and educators, served as the impetus for assembling this special issue. The contents represent state-of-the-science conceptualizations and empirical work on the topic of binge drinking. This issue begins with 2 invited articles and contains a selection of empirical articles that reflect experimental and correlational designs, longitudinal studies of the course and correlates of binge drinking, and controlled-intervention trials. These articles address the construct validity of binge drinking as well as its utility as a high-risk marker in both theory-testing and intervention contexts. This introductory article discusses several advantages and disadvantages of continued use of the term binge drinking and suggests alternatives for use in research and applied contexts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Introduction to the special issue on trauma and ethnoracial diversity.

We are delighted to introduce this special issue of Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy (PT: TRPP) devoted to the intersection of trauma and ethnoracial diversity. Given the growing ethnoracial diversity of the United States (U.S. Census Bureau, 2008) and inasmuch as Americans are becoming more involved with diverse cultures all over the world, trauma-oriented professionals are increasingly called upon to enhance and demonstrate their multicultural competence (American Psychological Association, 2003). Though there is already a robust literature examining trauma-related variables in different ethnic groups (see Pole, Gone, & Kulkarni, 2008 and Pole & Triffleman, 2008 for reviews), there is a need to both promote the advancement of such literature and augment its visibility. This special issue was conceived as one way to meet this need. We sought trauma-related studies that would: (a) illustrate differences among ethnoracial groups; (b) reveal the enormous variation within minority groups; and/or (c) draw attention to questions or issues that are of particular importance to minority groups. We found that the best examples of such studies were themselves diverse not only with respect to the ethnicity of their samples but also in terms of their methodology and focus. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A Time and Place for Qualitative and Mixed Methods in Counseling Psychology Research.

The authors are pleased to present this special issue of the Journal of Counseling Psychology (JCP) on qualitative and mixed methods research. The major goal of the special issue is to introduce a variety of qualitative and mixed methods approaches to counseling psychologists and to encourage their increased application in research. This special issue of JCP is a call to counseling researchers to increase their dialogue over philosophy of science, research paradigms, and methodological diversity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)