At 4:37 PM -0400 8/11/99, ANN MUIR THOMAS wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Paul Brandon wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>*What* makes you assume that graduate students wouldn't know the
>difference? Seems to me this gets covered in the first semester of grad
>school for most clinical/counseling/ etc. folks.
I doubt that first semester clinical grad students have mastered all the
details that make the difference between correct and incorrect
implementations of a particular brand of therapy.
It should be possible to set up protocols with equivalent face validity.
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