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Peer reviewedHoran, John J. – Educational Researcher, 1980
Identifies and discusses three myths that pervade experimental counseling and psychotherapy: (1) that experimental subjects receive treatments appropriate to their clinical problems; (2) that the treatments are deployed as purported; and (3) that control groups customarily used by researchers allow them to determine the existence of a treatment…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Counseling, Experimental Psychology, Psychotherapy
