No, its considered a therapist-related factor, and its not seen as the responsibility of the client, but there is recognition that some therapists...
There's a term for this, its called "demand characteristics", which is the inclination to affirm the researchers expectations, or to respond in a...
"Therapeutic alliance" is not one of the sources of bias (that's researcher allegiance you're thinking of), its the notion that therapy mainly...
Here is the full 19 item list:
Meichenbaum, D., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2018). How to spot hype in the field of psychotherapy: A 19-item checklist. Professional Psychology:...
How embarrassing for all of us. I appreciate that she is probably motivated by "good intentions", but whether she did it intentionally or not,...
Oh, and not to mention, as @rvallee says, you need a consistent, objective criterion for deciding whether someone has experienced significant...
Yes and the opposite is true too. Many people who've led absolutely shit lives, who been raped or attacked or repeatedly abused or even...
Interesting article, Graham. I use sleep medication pretty regularly, because my experience is that even mild sleep deprivation (even 1 hour less...
Totally, @Arnie Pye, @Sean! I've just finished reading about work conditions for domestic workers in Europe 100 years ago. They were up so early...
Like you say, it depends on what you mean by stress. But if you think of stress as some sort of specific challenge or set of challenges that the...
This. If you want to claim hope can improve bodily function (or that despair or stress can do the opposite), you must specify the mechanism by...
Sorry, just can't let this go. "Refining" they say. "Refining"! What a bald faced lie.
I'm actually SO ANGRY about this case report. How did it ever get published? How can you possibly argue that someone with PSP, a degenerative...
Ahh, don't be too hard on your profession, @Daisybell, @Peter Trewhitt. Bullshit knows no disciplinary bounds. I'm from Psychology, and look at...
Yes, you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you take the view that psychological therapies operate by just increasing people's expectations...
This is a really good point. I saw a study a few years back on Alzheimers disease - it found that the rate of diagnosis of depressive disorder was...
Look at the p values! Not statistically significant if you correct for the number of chances they gave themselves to get a result.
@Hutan :rofl::rofl::rofl: Hold the phone, stop the presses! "Scientists discover that depressed people are generally more negative than...
Oh yes. CBT works for everything, apparently. Nobody seems to think that's a problem.
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