Encouraging Students to Think Critically About Psychotherapy: Overcoming Naïve Realism

Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 267-271

  Lilienfeld, Scott O ^a   Lohr, Jeffrey M ^b   Olatunji, Bunmi O ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational and assessment implications; Ineffective psychotherapies seeming to work; Na ve realism; Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among trauma exposed victims; Psychotherapy two key misconceptions; Report 7: encouraging students to think critically about psychotherapy overcoming na ve realism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889267509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305173.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

References (21)

1. Arkowitz, H., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2006, April/May). Psychotherapy on trial. Scientific American Mind, 2, 42-49.
2. Axsom, D., & Cooper, J. (1985). Cognitive dissonance and psychotherapy: The role of effort justification in inducing weight loss. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 21, 149-160.
3. Beyerstein, B. L. (1997). Why bogus therapies seem to work. Skeptical Inquirer, 29, 29-34.
4. Chambless, D. L., & Ollendick, T. H. (2001). Empirically supported psychological interventions:Controversies and evidence. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 685-716.
5. Conway, M., & Ross, M. (1984). Getting what you want by revising what you had. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 738-748.
6. Dawes, R. M. (1994). House of cards: Psychology and psychotherapy built on myth. New York: Free Press.
7. Eisner, D. A. (2000). The death of psychotherapy: From Freud to alien abductions. Westport, CT:Praeger.
8. Grove, W. M., & Meehl, P. E. (1996). Comparative efficiency of informal (subjective, impressionistic) and formal (mechanical, algorithmic) prediction procedures: The clinical statistical controversy. Psychology: Public Policy and Law, 2, 293-323.
9. Hoefler, J. M. (1994). Critical thinking and the use of optical illusions. PS: Political Science and Politics, 2, 538-545.
10. Horney, K. (1957). Our inner conflicts: A constructive theory of neurosis. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
11. Howard, K. I., Kopta, S. M., Krause, M. S., & Orlinsky, D. E. (1986). The dose-effect relationship in psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 41, 159-164.
12. Jacobson, J. W., Mulick, J. A., & Schwartz, A. A. (1995). A history of facilitated communication:Science, pseudoscience, and antiscience. American Psychologist, 50, 750-765.
13. Kendall, P. C., Butcher, J. N., & Holmbeck, G. N. (Eds.). (1999). Handbook of research methods in clinical psychology (2nd ed.) New York: Wiley.
14. Lilienfeld, S. O. (2007). Psychological treatments that cause harm. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 2, 53-70.
15. Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., & Lohr, J. M. (2003). Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology. New York: Guilford.
16. McNally, R. J., Bryant, R. A., & Ehlers A. (2003). Does early psychological intervention promote recovery from posttraumatic stress? Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 4, 45-79.
17. Nickerson, R. S. (1998). Confirmation bias: A ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises. Review of General Psychology, 2, 175-220.
18. Ross, L., & Ward, A. (1996). Naïve realism: Implications for social conflict and misunderstanding. In T. Brown, E. Reed, & E. Turiel (Eds.), Values and knowledge (pp. 103-135). Hillsdale, NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
19. Segall, M. H., Campbell, D. T., & Herskovits, M. J. (1966). The influence of culture on visual perception. Indianapolis, IA: Bobbs-Merrill.
20. Shadish, W. R., Cook, T. D., & Campbell, D. T. (2002). Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.
21. Wegner, D. M., Fuller, V. A., & Sparrow, B. (2003). Clever hands: Uncontrolled intelligence in facilitated communication. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 5-19.