Cognitive-behavioural therapy for severe mental disorders: back to the future?

Scott, Jan · Br J Psychiatry · 2008

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

Like recent medication studies, it appears that when cognitive-behavioural therapy is tested in pragmatic effectiveness trials involving routine clinical populations it does not fare as well as in efficacy trials. Given the multitude of factors that can ;muddy the waters' in clinical trials, how do we best make sense of the findings?

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