Are results of randomized controlled trials useful to psychotherapists?

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 126-135

  Persons, Jacqueline B ^a,b   Silberschatz, George ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for Cognitive Therapy   (United States)

^c Center for Cognitive Therapy ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BULIMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COUNSELING; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXPERIMENT; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; OBSESSION; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; RESEARCH; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0031909525     PISSN: 0022006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-006X.66.1.126     Document Type: Review

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