Advanced trials are needed to assess psychological therapies, say researchers – News-Medical.Net

Various forms of psychotherapies have been shown to be efficacious and cost-effective for a wide spectrum of mental disorders.
Concerns have been raised about the generalizability of the findings from randomized controlled psychotherapy trials since the conditions and characteristics of such efficacy trials differ significantly from routine clinical practice.
Behavioral interventions, and in particular disorder-specific psychotherapy techniques, differ in their complex nature in many ways from…

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