Define one of the three types of experiments used in psychotherapy research and describe how it works. Go to the Google Scholar and find an example of a treatment study (focused particularly on psychotherapy) that uses this method.

Other than the title and abstract saying so how do you know that this is one of those studies (hint: Look at the methods section)?

Name something you learned in the section titlted “Research on Common or Nonspecific Factors in Therapy” and share why you found that interesting.

– authors write, “The effects of self-help groups, apps, and internet resources are seldom evaluated empirically.

Many troubled individuals who use self-help methods are convinced that these methods have value for them and thus see formal outcome research as unnecessary.”

The authors go on to say that the same might be said for self-help books, although in history there has been a bit more research on them, although not much.

Share your thoughts about self-help vehicles both in general and in the context of how rigorously psychotherapy interventions are studied.