Clinical Psychology: Science and Pracrtice

Recommendations for Improving Communication of Empirical Support for Clinical Interventions

Helping clinical psychologists select the best form of psychotherapy for a particular client with a particular problem requires a way to communicate to them the results of comparisons of clinical interventions. In this article, David Tolin and his associates take a detailed look at where communication needs to be improved, and they recommend actions to take now while the field undertakes a long-range process to develop better standards.

Noisy Data Makes Comparisons of Psychotherapies More Challenging

In this article, David Tolin looks at why some studies do not find cognitive-behavior therapies to be better than other forms of therapy. He identifies several sources of error variance (in other words, noisy data) that may hide any differences between the effectiveness of candidate psychotherapies. He then suggests ways to improve comparisons of such psychotherapeutic evaluations.