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Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volume 21, 2025

Harnessing Implementation Science in Clinical Psychology: Past, Present, and Future

Abstract

Implementation science aspires to equitably accelerate the uptake of clinical research into practice to improve population health. The focus of implementation science includes individual behavior change mechanisms that are similar to those that drive the field of clinical psychology. For this reason, clinical psychologists are well-suited to take up implementation science methods in pursuit of improving the quality of behavioral health care. To do so, clinical psychologists must expand beyond individual behavior change to include a focus on organizations and systems. In this review, we reflect on ways that clinical psychologists can lead in the integration of implementation science principles and approaches into clinical psychology research and practice. We discuss the role clinical psychologists play in closing know–do gaps in behavioral health and describe how clinical psychologists can build implementation science competencies. We end with current controversies and opportunities for innovation to further improve the quality of behavioral health care.

Keyword(s): behavior change mechanisms, implementation science, improving quality of behavioral health care
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