Allegiance in Psychotherapy Outcome Research: Separating Association From Bias

By Y. Leykin, Robert J. DeRubeis. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/01fbfda9e4705a63a55b5f7a76504467b7759c0c

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In Clinical Psychology

1. David F. Tolin
2. Dean McKay
3. Tayyab Rashid
4. D. Chan

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. David F. Tolin
2. Tayyab Rashid
3. D. Chan

Citations in the corpus

• Is cognitive-behavioral therapy more effective than other therapies? A meta-analytic review. (2010, background): “The presence of researcher allegiance does not necessarily imply bias, as others have noted (Hollon, 1999; Leykin & DeRubeis, 2009); nevertheless, it is included here as a possible moderator of study outcome.”
• Empirically Supported Treatment: Recommendations for a New Model (2015, background): “The presence of researcher allegiance does not necessarily imply bias (Hollon, 1999; Leykin & DeRubeis, 2009); however, it is a risk factor that has been shown empirically to be associated with some probability of bias.”
• Positive psychotherapy: A strength-based approach (2015, background): “It significantly outperforms placebo and in many cases, psychotherapy fares better in the long run than medications (Castonguay, 2013; Leykin & DeRubeis, 2009).”