High-Quality Psychotherapy Research: From Conception to Piloting to National Trials

by Helena Chmura Kraemer and Patricia A. Areán

Although psychotherapy research shares many of the same methodological issues that pharmacology trials do, psychotherapy research poses unique challenges, including the difficulty (if not near impossibility) of keeping participants blind to treatment assignment, the need for a replicable manual and therapist training procedure, the importance of outside observation of therapy quality ratings, and the problems researchers face in measuring the active...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199782466
• ISBN13: 9780199782468
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"