I'm actually looking for studies comparing individuals with psychopathology who are receiving treatment with a group of individuals with psychopathology NOT receiving the treatment (i.e., the appropriate control group in a randomized block design).
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Martin Luther King Jr. On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:03 AM, michael sylvester wrote: > > > I think that Steven Specht inquiry pertained to comparison to > normals.Btw,running subjects as their own cointrol invoves a control > condition and a treatment control.One can become more sophisticated by using > "randomized block" block designs and forget > ye not to test for interactions. > Michael > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lilienfeld, Scott O > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 10:51 AM > Subject: RE: [tips] schizophrenia studies > > > > Reluctant to enter in here, but randomized controlled trials of schizophrenia > do not compare people with schizophrenia with normals, so Michael S's comment > is not relevant. They randomly assign patients with schizophrenia to > alternative treatment (or no treatment) conditions. > > In addition to oodles of medication studies and oodles of meta-analyses > on medication studies (glutamate blockers are the big new direction here), > there is a fairly large literature on the use of family therapy to treat > schizophrenia - pioneered by the late Jerry Hogarty and his colleagues at > Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinics in Pittsburgh. This family-focused > treatment includes psychoeducational components and is designed to decrease > levels of familial "expressed emotion" (arguably a misnomer), which comprises > familial hostility, criticism, and overinvolvement toward the patient with > schizophrenia. E.g., see: > > http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/43/7/633 > > Last time I looked at this literaure, most studies suggested that this > treatment can help to delay relapse, although not prevent it. > > There are also promising data on cogniitve enhancement therapy on some > target symptoms among patients with schizophrenia: > > http://www.nascos.org/library_files/CogEnhancTher.pdf > > All the best (and sorry that I don't have time to send more)...Scott > From: michael sylvester [[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 2:07 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] schizophrenia studies > > > > Not sure what Steven is looking for.Ironically,his "moments like this" is > not being too fruitful for him. > Anyway comparing schizophrenics with so -called normals can raise questions > of control group equilance. > Let us assume that the schizophrenic group is labelled "Charlie Sheen",what > would the comparative control group look like? > It is my understanding that true internal experimentasl validity calls for > the experimental and control groups to be equal,except > for the manipulation of the indepedent variable. 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