title: Abuse and disabuse of the drug metaphor in psychotherapy research: hold on to the baby as you throw out the bath.
abstract: Stiles and Shapiro (1994) argue that trivial correlations between process variables and treatment outcome point to inherent methodological limitations of correlational designs in process-outcome research. In coming to such a far-reaching (erroneous) conclusion, Stiles and Shapiro are throwing out the baby with the bath. Correlational designs are perfectly appropriate for testing process-outcome correlations if process measures are adequately conceptualized. Examples of case-specific measures of therapist responsiveness are reviewed to illustrate the power of correlational designs.
authors: Department of Psychiatry, Mount Zion Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Silberschatz
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012106:Research