PSYC 481 Lecture 8: Lecture 4.1
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Clinical psychology: why do clinical psychologists do research, eysenck"s review, did a meta analysis, everyone was bs, no one was doing real. Research issues science: treatment outcome, assessment methods, diagnostic issues, professional issues, teaching and training issues, treatment outcome, efficacy (easier to prove) Success in the lab : effectiveness (harder to prove) Success of a therapy in actual clinical settings. Success in the real world : treatment outcome - validity. The extent to which change in the dv is due to change in the iv: generally high in efficacy studies, external validity, generalizability of result, generally high in effectiveness studies, statistical vs. clinical significance. Statistical significance doesn"t necessarily mean ( real world ) clinical significance: diagnostic issues, examples can include: Examine relationships between disorders: comorbidity, multiple disorders that hang out together . Prevalence or course of disorders: trends and cultural concerns, clinical research, the experimental method, observation.
