Verifiability in Clinical Psychology Practices

Abstract

Up to the present time, clinical psychological practices have relied heavily on the face-to-face (F2F), talk-based (TB) paradigm as unfortunately professionally approved leftover remnants of undoubtedly useful clinical practices that began in the past century. As helpful and useful those practices may have been in the past, they are no longer appropriate to the ever-increasing mental health needs of our nation, including sickness prevention, health promotion, crisis intervention, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation. Technological advances in e-mental health interventions are growing by leaps and bounds every day, as discussed in Chap. 2 of this volume.