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Obstacles to disseminating applied psychological science.
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It is proposed that scientists should market their findings through popular articles and books, workshops, and other vehicles of communication valued by practitioners.Abstract:
Many argue that the objectives of individual research reports are inconsistent with the needs of practitioners and should logically be changed. Based on a survey of how practitioners use psychological research, it appears that clinicians believe that research findings are, and have been, important in modifying their practices. However, they tend to get this “research” information more often from popular books, practice-oriented journals, and workshops than from research journals. Hence, information probably is not coming from scientists and may not actually represent state-of-the-art research knowledge. We propose that scientists should market their findings through popular articles and books, workshops, and other vehicles of communication valued by practitioners.read more
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Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change
Sol L. Garfield,Allen E. Bergin +1 more
TL;DR: The NIMH Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program: Where We Began and Where We Are (I. Elkin, et al. as discussed by the authors ) presents a methodology, design, and evaluation in psychotherapy research.
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Research design in clinical psychology
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analysis of qualitative and quantitative research methods used in clinical work to evaluate the impact of the single case in Clinical Work, and some of the techniques used in this work came from the literature on case-control research.
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Comparative Studies of Psychotherapies: Is It True That Everyone Has Won and All Must Have Prizes?
TL;DR: The research does not justify the conclusion that patients should randomly assign patients to treatments, and explanations for the usual tie score effect emphasize the common components among psychotherapies, especially the helping relationship with a therapist.