Wiley Blackwell is proud to publish British Journal of Clinical Psychology on behalf of The British Psychological Society.     Virtual Issue: Assessment in clinical practice and research: Articles published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology that have made an important contribution to clinical assessment   The British Journal of Clinical Psychology (BJCP) is one of the oldest publications of the British Psychological Society (BPS), with 2012 marking the onset of its second half century. To celebrate this juncture, we thought it timely to present the first of a series of Virtual Issues that showcase some of the many outstanding articles that have been published over the past fifty years. BJCP has long been considered an outlet for the best empirical and theoretical research papers in clinical psychology. An important strength of the BCJP however, is that in contrast to more specialist clinical journals, BJCP covers the entire gamut of clinical psychology – including (but not restricted to) abnormal psychology, cognitive neuropsychiatry, and psychological assessment. In this first virtual issue, we sought to identify articles that fall into this latter category, and have had important implications for clinical assessment. These articles have either presented new clinical measures, or new data that help us to better understand and interpret test performance on existing ones. Reflecting the considerable importance of this work, cumulatively these ten articles have been cited in excess of 2000 times. All of these measures are, or can be, used in routine clinical practice (not only in research) to help clinicians gain a better understanding of their clients' difficulties. Most of them are brief (or abbreviated versions of longer measures), which facilitates clinical use, and most include normative data, which are most useful for interpretations." Julie Henry & Mike Startup All of the articles in the Virtual Issue are free to download. The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and its correlates Dr D. E. Broadbent, P. F. Cooper, P. FitzGerald and K. R. Parkes The development of a six-item short-form of the state scale of the Spielberger State—Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) Theresa M. Marteau, Hilary Bekker The positive and negative affect schedule (PANAS): Construct validity, measurement properties and normative data in a large non-clinical sample John R. Crawford, Julie D. Henry   Keep up to date with British Journal of Clinical Psychology! Simply click here to register for new content alerts* and receive an email each time a new issue publishes. *To register you will need to be logged into your Wiley Online Library account. If you do not have a Wiley Online Library account, please visit wileyonlinelibrary.com/user-registration to register.     Verbal fluency as a function of a measure of verbal intelligence and in relation to different types of cerebral pathology Edgar Miller The Spot-the-Word test: A robust estimate of verbal intelligence based on lexical decision Alan Baddeley, Hazel Emslie, Ian Nimmo-Smith CAMCOG—A concise neuropsychological test to assist dementia diagnosis: Socio-demographic determinants in an elderly population sample Felicia A. Huppert, Carol Brayne, Caroline Gill, E. S. Paykel, Lynn Beardsall Self-report measures of depression: Some psychometric considerations Gregory J. Boyle The development of a measure of social support: The Significant Others (SOS) Scale M. J. Power, L. A. Champion, S. J. Aris The IIP-32: A short version of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems Michael Barkham, Gillian E. 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