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Barriers to Implementing Treatment Integrity Procedures: Survey of Treatment Outcome Researchers
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Perepletchikova, Francheska; Hilt, Lori M.; Chereji, Elizabeth; Kazdin, Alan E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
Treatment integrity refers to implementing interventions as intended. Treatment integrity is critically important for experimental validity and for drawing valid inferences regarding the relationship between treatment and outcome. Yet, it is rarely adequately addressed in psychotherapy research. The authors examined barriers to treatment integrity…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Validity, Integrity, Psychotherapy
Obstacles in Using Randomization Tests in Single-Case Experimentation.
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Kazdin, Alan E. – Journal of Educational Statistics, 1980
Problems associated with randomization tests in single- case experiments are discussed. This article follows a discussion of randomization tests in single case studies in the same issue of this journal. (See TM 505 799; 505 801).(Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Hypothesis Testing, Research Design, Research Problems
Methodological and Interpretive Problems of Single-Case Experimental Designs.
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Kazdin, Alan E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Single-case designs make available areas not easily studied in group research and make demands on an investigator that are not easily met in clinical situations. Single-case designs appear relatively straightforward, which may foster problems. Best guide for interpretation is recognition of logic of designs and common methodological problems.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Clinical Psychology, Individual Testing, Research Methodology
Developmental Psychopathology: Current Research, Issues, and Directions.
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Kazdin, Alan E. – American Psychologist, 1989
Reviews recent research in the developmental psychopathology of children, the study of clinical dysfunction in the context of maturational and developmental processes. Many advances have relied heavily on the extension of paradigms developed in research with adults; offers directions for further research. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Children, Developmental Psychology
Self-Report and Interview Measures of Childhood and Adolescent Depression.
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Kazdin, Alan E.; Petti, Theodore A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1982
Reviews and evaluates existing self-report and interview measures of childhood and adolescent depression in terms of their characteristics, advantages, and limitations. (MP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Depression (Psychology), Interviews
Generalization From Analogue Therapy to the Clinical Situation: The Paradox and the Dilemma of Generality.
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Rakover, Sam S.; Kazdin, Alan E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1980
Discusses the generalization of findings from analogue therapy research to the clinical situation. Rakover contends this leads to self-contradiction and lack of scientific progress and proposes theory testing. Kazdin suggests research to determine the relationship of analogue therapy to clinical practice. (JAC)
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Counseling Techniques, Generalization, Hypothesis Testing
Replication and Extension of Behavioral Treatment of Autistic Disorder.
Kazdin, Alan E. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1993
This commentary on EC 605 442, which indicated long-term gains for children with autism who experienced intensive behavioral intervention as preschoolers, emphasizes the need for replication. The replication study should use random assignment to experimental and control groups, a larger sample of cases, standard diagnostic instruments to delineate…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Modification, Control Groups, Diagnostic Tests