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Book SynopsisAlthough psychotherapy research shares many of the same methodological issues that pharmacology trials do, psychotherapy research poses unique challenges, including the difficulty (if not near impossibility) of keeping participants blind to treatment assignment, the need for a replicable manual and therapist training procedure, the importance of outside observation of therapy quality ratings, and the problems researchers face in measuring the active ingredients of psychotherapy.High Quality Psychotherapy Research is for all psychotherapy investigators who wish to learn state-of-the-art psychotherapy research methods. Organized developmentally, the book explains the conceptualization of the trial, discusses the pilot study and the large scale study, and concludes with instructions for designing a multi-site trial. Topics specific to psychotherapy research are examined in detail, including innovations in data analysis, how to conduct multi-site psychotherapy trials, mediation of treatmen
Table of Contents1. Psychotherapy Research Defined ; 2. Creating and Supporting Hypotheses for Clinical Trials ; 3. Selecting and Creating Materials for a Psychotherapy Study: Therapy Manuals, Training Methods, and Fidelity Measures ; 4. Sample Definition, Measures, and Assessment Procedures ; 5. Designing the Study ; 6. Conducting the Pilot Study ; 7. Pulling It All Together: The Big Trial ; 8. Analyzing Your Data ; 9. The Multi-site Trial
