Syzygy, Science, and Psychotherapy: The Consumer Reports Study
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Publication Date
7-2001
Publisher
Wiley
Source Publication
Journal of Clinical Psychology
Source ISSN
0021-9762
Abstract
Results from a Consumer Reports (CR) survey indicated that psychotherapy has proven to be quite effective and that longer‐term therapy has been more effective than shorter‐term therapy. Critiques of the methodology of this study have included the claim that (a) the self‐selected sample was biased in favor of people who felt that they had benefited from psychotherapy, (b) the use of retrospective accounts led to a further positive bias, and (c) the validity of the outcome assessment was questionable. Supplemental data from other sources, including prospective data from a large sample of psychotherapy patients, are presented to augment the interpretation of the results of the CR study and to illustrate how some critiques of research results can be evaluated systematically.
Recommended Citation
Howard, Kenneth I.; Krause, Merton S.; Caburnay, Charlene A.; and Saunders, Stephen M., "Syzygy, Science, and Psychotherapy: The Consumer Reports Study" (2001). Psychology Faculty Research and Publications. 305.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/psych_fac/305
Comments
Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 57, No. 7 (July 2001): 865-874. DOI.