Psychotherapy outcome research: Methods for reporting variability and evaluating clinical significance

1984/09/01 by Neil S. Jacobson, William C. Follette, Dirk Revenstorf · 1,311 citations
Medicine · Psychology · #Applied psychology #Behavioral and Psychological Studies #Clinical psychology #Clinical significance #Cognitive and psychological constructs research #Data collection #Data presentation #Medicine #Outcome (game theory) #Presentation (obstetrics) #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications #Reliability (semiconductor) #Statistical analysis #Statistical significance #Statistics #Surgery

paper · doi:10.1016/s0005-7894(84)80002-7

published in Behavior Therapy 15(4), 336-352 (Elsevier BV)

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