Establishing Specificity in Psychotherapy: A Meta-Analysis of Structural Equivalence of Placebo Controls

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 973-979

  Baskin, Thomas W ^a   Tierney, Sandy Callen ^a   Minami, Takuya ^a   Wampold, Bruce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PLACEBO EFFECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0344064337     PISSN: 0022006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-006X.71.6.973     Document Type: Article

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