ERIC Number: ED607348
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Mar
Pages: 44
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Informant Discrepancies in Judgments about Change during Mental Health Treatments
Marsh, Jessecae K.; Zeveney, Andrew S.; De Los Reyes, Andres
Grantee Submission
Understanding how mental health treatments benefit those who receive treatment comes with a challenge: Often different people involved in treatment have different impressions of the treatment's ultimate effects. How do people reconcile these different reports to understand the true benefit of treatment? In a series of 4 experiments, we tested people's beliefs about how to integrate information from multiple informants for the treatment improvement of child clients. We found that laypeople (Experiments 1, 2, and 3) and professional mental health clinicians (Experiment 4) trust informants they believe to be insightful about the specific disorder but pessimistic about overall improvement. Our findings suggest important future research avenues to better understand how intuitions about reconciling informants influences the process of weighting information from clients and others involved in their care. [This paper was published in "Clinical Psychological Science" v8 p318-332 Mar 2020.]
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R324A180032