Of the Following,which Is a Valid Criticism of Efficacy Studies

question 66

Multiple Choice

Of the following,which is a valid criticism of efficacy studies of psychotherapy treatments?

• A)They show artificially inflated results for mental illnesses of higher severity.
• B)They focus on disorder-specific treatments and processes rather than looking at common themes across different disorders.
• C)They are only useful in a correlational design; that is,they cannot show cause-and-effect relationships.
• D)They take many years to conduct and require very large numbers of participants.

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