Clinical Psychology: Science, Practice, and Culture
Fourth Edition
Web Links from Text
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- Web Link 6.1: Article on Consumer Reports effectiveness study by Martin Seligman
- What are greatest strengths and limitations of the Consumer Reports study?
- How does this study illustrate the differences between efficacy and effectiveness?
- Web Link 6.2: Online article on the debate between the idiographic and nomothetic approaches to research in psychology.
- What are the linguistic roots of the words “idiographic” and “nomothetic”?
- How do these linguistic roots relate to the way these terms are currently used to describe various types of psychological research?
- In your opinion, to what extent should clinical psychologists emphasize idiographic vs. nomothetic approaches to research?
- Web Link 6.3: 2000 article on the history of the use of meta-analysis in psychotherapy (and other) research
- According to this article, how was Hans Eysenck’s negative review of psychotherapy outcome methodologically flawed?
- How has the use of meta-analysis evolved since its original uses in the social sciences?
- What predictions does this article make about the use of meta-analysis in the future?