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Thursday, January 17, 2008

FOR DEBATE - Asking the right questions in the right way: the need for a shift in research on psychological treatments for addiction
Addiction (OnlineEarly Articles) 09 Jan 2008

To identify possible reasons for the disappointingly negative results of methodologically rigorous controlled trials of psychological treatments in the addictions field.

Treatment research has been asking the wrong questions in the wrong way. Three necessary shifts in ways of conducting research are proposed: (i) the field should stop studying named techniques and focus instead on change processes; (ii) change processes should be studied within the broader, longer-acting systems of which treatment is part; and (iii) science in the field should be brought up to date by acknowledging a variety of sources of useful knowledge.


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