Well, Dawes wrote in the 80s and I remember being Rorschach’d in the 90s, but I can imagine that things have gotten better in the 00s. Still, I have to ask—have there been any experimental studies showing the improvement?
(I do remember hearing that there was positive experimental validation for cognitive-behavioral therapy doing systematically better than other forms of psychotherapy.)
Carl, following that link to its source brought me here: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action=download&o=33188, where several randomized trials are mentioned. But I see no meta-analysis, so I still worry about publication selection biases, etc. Anyone know of a meta-analysis of this lit?
Well, Dawes wrote in the 80s and I remember being Rorschach’d in the 90s, but I can imagine that things have gotten better in the 00s. Still, I have to ask—have there been any experimental studies showing the improvement?
(I do remember hearing that there was positive experimental validation for cognitive-behavioral therapy doing systematically better than other forms of psychotherapy.)
Yes, cognitive-behavioral therapy has come out ahead of other methods in a number of randomized clinical trials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy
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Carl, following that link to its source brought me here: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action=download&o=33188, where several randomized trials are mentioned. But I see no meta-analysis, so I still worry about publication selection biases, etc. Anyone know of a meta-analysis of this lit?
I know I’m not teaching Robin anything, but it should be noted that meta-analyses often fail to overcome publication selection biases.
Here’s a review of meta-analyses on CBT:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272735805001005
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