Editorial: A Call for Greater Specification of Core Beliefs

Recently, there is a growing interest in scientific dissemination. This is due, as highlighted in other contributions (Beck et al., 2019; Loi & Di Guardo, 2015; Montesinos, 2008; Settineri & Merlo, 2022), to choices made by both university institutions and individual scientists. In the case of clinical psychology, this growing interest opens up the possibility of dialogue that includes different perspectives that can contribute to our understanding of the mind. In fact, clinical psychology would allow us to understand what is possible in terms of receiving information, processing it and using it to guide action. With direct reference to the current pandemic, psychological models of uncertainty and intolerance to uncertainty and alexithymia were capable of accounting for people’s mental health difficulties, both in terms of normal and pathological responses to threat (Baker et al., 2020; Barchetta et al., 2021; Di Giacomo et al., 2020; Freeston et al., 2020; Koffman et al., 2020; Li et al., 2022; Merlo et al., 2021; Martino et al., 2021; Moroianu et al., 2021; Yousfi et al., 2021). In these terms clear definitions of the above-mentioned difficulties are fundamental.