On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Paul Brandon wrote:
> At 8:34 AM -0700 8/11/99, Don Allen wrote:
> >Stephen-
> >
> >Not quite double blind, but very very close. You would also have to
> >ensure that the therapists were equally convinced of the effectiveness of
> >their treatments otherwise differential experimenter enthusiasm could
> >affect the Ss responses. That quibble aside, I agree that it would be a
> >good test of cognitive (or any other) therapy.
> >
> >-Don.
>
> This could easily be handled by training graduate students in the different
> treatments.
*What* makes you assume that graduate students wouldn't know the
difference? Seems to me this gets covered in the first semester of grad
school for most clinical/counseling/ etc. folks.
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