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Clinical psychologists in the 1970s.

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This article is published in American Psychologist.The article was published on 1976-01-01. It has received 284 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Consulting psychology & School psychology.

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Psychological Testing and Psychological Assessment: A Review of Evidence and Issues.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a multimethod assessment battery provides a structured means for skilled clinicians to maximize the validity of individualized assessments.
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A national survey of practicing psychologists' attitudes toward psychotherapy treatment manuals.

TL;DR: This paper found that practitioners held widely varying attitudes toward treatment manuals, and ideas about what constitutes a manual were associated with attitudes in a predictable way, and suggested how to gather more useful information about practitioners' attitudes toward the many changes affecting current models of clinical practice.
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The treatment utility of assessment. A functional approach to evaluating assessment quality.

TL;DR: This article proposes a name for the impact of assessment on treatment outcome: the "treatment utility of assessment", and considers how to make better progress in understanding the role of assessment in successful treatment.
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Toward the delineation of therapeutic change principles.

TL;DR: There is a growing discontent among therapists of varying orientations as discussed by the authors, noting some of the political, economic, and social forces apt to affect our likelihood of ever reaching a consensus within the field and presenting an approach to the delineation and study of commonalities across various orientations.
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Are all psychotherapies equivalent

TL;DR: The question of equivalence between psychotherapy and clinical outcomes has been investigated extensively in the literature as discussed by the authors, with the conclusion that psychotherapy is more effective than clinical outcomes of different therapies.
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Psychiatric ideologies and institutions

TL;DR: This classic monograph in medical sociology was originally published in the 1960s and describes hospitals as sites where ideological battles characterizing the mental health arena are being fought, implemented, critiqued, modified, and transformed.