Critical Analysis of Clinical Psychology

Reread Shedler (2015) on the evidence for evidence based practice. Google search (or some such engine) a clinical approach you are interested in, and see what popular press results are out there. Then find the original research article. Consider questions like:

What was being studied?

Who were the patients included? (Might also mean, who was excluded!)

How did they define terms? (Is there a bias in the operationalization of terms) Is there a follow up?

What questions does the article leave you with? (The authors and yours!)

“Draw your own conclusion. Ask yourself: do the actual methods and findings of this study justify the claim I just heard?