Hi Mike:
This is a very interesting point but I am not sure that I follow the argument completely. Please expand your argument, dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's.
Ken On 9/12/2011 3:00 AM, Mike Wiliams wrote:
Clinical Psychology psychotherapy and psychotropic medication therapies will never have sufficient empirical support simply because the subjects are never blind to the treatment condition.
************************* All the
investigators are doing is training the subjects to endorse change on the dependent measures.
************************** That's why the meta-analyses conclude that
any therapy is effective. I have never seen an analysis that addressed this research problem. It's similar to the obesity researchers who never notice that their entire field is based on the dieting behavior of young women. Mike Williams Drexel University
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