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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 47-51Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00546.x
Keywords
efficacy; effectiveness; intervention; range of possible changes; treatment
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- NIMH NIH HHS [F31 MH067540-05, R01 MH059029, F31 MH067540] Funding Source: Medline
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An international, multidisciplinary effort aims to identify evidence-based treatments (EBTs) or interventions. The goal of this effort is to identify specific techniques or programs that successfully target and change specific behaviors. In clinical psychology, EBTs are identified based on the outcomes of randomized controlled trials examining whether treatments outperform control or alternative treatment conditions. Treatment outcomes are measured in multiple ways. Consistently, different ways of gauging outcomes yield inconsistent conclusions. Historically, EBT research has not accounted for these inconsistencies. In this paper we highlight the implications of inconsistencies, describe a framework for redressing inconsistent findings, and illustrate how the framework can guide future research on how to administer and combine treatments to maximize treatment effects and how to study treatments via quantitative review.
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