Concreteness and Specificity in Clinical Psychology

L’Abate, Luciano

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“…It supports the contention that most clinical psychology and mental health therapeutic practices are steeped in art rather than science, reinforcing the argument that the line between art and charlatanry is very thin indeed (L'Abate, 2013(L'Abate, , 2015.…”

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The American Journal of Family Therapy

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Eds.). (2015). Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford, 548 pp.In this second, critically important review of research on unsupported, pseudoscientific clinical psychology practices, no single practice for adults is spared, such as: clinical judgment, assessment techniques, expert testimony, dissociative identity disorder, so-called evidence-based treatments, new age and novel unsupported practices, memory recovery techniques, self-help therapy, trauma-related stress and alcohol use disorders, and antidepressant medication.Chapters that are specifically relevant to couples and family therapists cover attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorders, attachment therapies, and antisocial behavior in children and adolescents.In three out of six final constructive remedies, the editors hope that the American Psychological Association (APA), among other professional organizations, will take concrete steps to limit and prohibit irresponsible and sometimes reprehensible therapeutic practices. Unfortunately, this reviewer is skeptical about those three possibilities. Asking the APA to completely revert itself is like asking the foxes to improve looking after their chicken coops. The last thing professional associations want to do is to alienate their memberships. Therefore, they have allowed questionable practices to assume legitimate status in spite of the absence of research-based evidence.This contribution is an entire and full indictment of the whole clinical psychology profession including its training practices. It supports the contention that most clinical psychology and mental health therapeutic practices are steeped in art rather than science, reinforcing the argument that the line between art and charlatanry is very thin indeed (L'Abate, 2013(L'Abate, , 2015.To say that this contribution should be in the hands of all clinical psychologists is questionable because most clinical psychologists practicing as psychotherapists will willfully avoid reading it. Nonetheless, it should be required reading in internship training programs and in the hands of examining diplomate boards.

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“…Such specificity is difficult if not impossible to achieve faceto-face and verbally. This is also an example of how models of RCT can be evaluated dynamically through Programmed Interactive Practice Exercises (PIPEs), linking evaluation with matched intervention (L'Abate, [17,28]). In this regard, the growing influence of the Internet is determining how to help troubled people at the distance without ever seeing them face-to-face through talk 27-31 to 27-34 [27][28][29][30][31].…”

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“…The former are replicable and can be evaluated within each mental health professional and among different professionals. The latter cannot be replicable and cannot be evaluated because of their variability within each professional and among professionals [17].…”

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“…Once this nomothetic part is completed, respondents are asked to rank order the items according to how they apply to one self idiographically. This rank order serves as a treatment plan by having the top five or six items considered one by one with a general practice exercise that evaluates their histories, frequencies, durations, rates, intensities, consequences, and contexts (L' Abate, 2011a [27,29,17,28,31].…”

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“…Furthermore, roles can be manipulated in the laboratory because of their directly concrete presence, while the infinite number of selves makes it difficult is not impossible to manipulate them in the laboratory or in the clinic. In addition, by being more concrete and specific, roles can be considered and discussed with our participants, while the notion of Self is too abstract and generic to be meaningful in therapy sessions [6,17].…”

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the concurrent validity of two instruments: the Self-Other Profile Chart (SOPC) derived from one model of Relational Competence Theory (RCT) and the How You View Your Self (HYVYS) derived from the Elementary Pragmatic Model (EPM). These two instruments were administered together with the Brief Psychiatric Rating Inventory (BPRI) to two samples of women and men with and without psychiatric diagnoses. Scores in both instruments demonstrated statistically significant test-retest reliabilities and correlated highly with scores on the BPRI. These results tend to support the concurrent validity of both instruments and add more evidence to the theoretical significance of the models they represent.

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