A conceptual and methodological analysis of the nonspecifics argument

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 174-183

  DeRubeis, Robert J ^a   Brotman, Melissa A ^a   Gibbons, Carly J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirically supported psychotherapies; Psychotherapy outcome research; Therapeutic alliance

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; IMIPRAMINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EMPIRICISM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANIC; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELAXATION TRAINING; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 20744446619     PISSN: 09695893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clipsy/bpi022     Document Type: Article

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