Re: Double-blind test of cognitive therapy

[Paul Brandon]

At 8:34 AM -0700 8/11/99, Don Allen wrote:
>Stephen-
>
>Not quite double blind, but very very close.  You would also have to
>ensure that the therapists were equally convinced of the effectiveness of
>their treatments otherwise differential experimenter enthusiasm could
>affect the Ss responses.  That quibble aside, I agree that it would be a
>good test of cognitive (or any other) therapy.
>
>-Don.

This could easily be handled by training graduate students in the different
treatments.

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