title: Clinical significance.
abstract: This article initiates the special section on clinical significance. Within a brief précis and overview, the 4 methodological articles and the integrative commentary of the special section are introduced. A call for the inclusion of the assessment of clinical significance in treatment evaluations is extended.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA.
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Kendall
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000592:standards*