Hi Dave, Are you the Dave Addison doing his MA at Chester? If so - well
met, dear friend! Love Joy Paxton.
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From: "Dave Addison" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: Does therapy work?
> Hi there,
>
> I'd be interested to know where the 80% figure comes from?
>
> A more interesting question for me is - 'has the influence of a
"significant
> other" in ones life, particularly that of an encounter with a stranger,
helped
> in a similar way?'
>
> Any thoughts - it might help me clarify a topic for my Masters
dissertation
> !
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave.
>
>
> >Dear friends and colleagues,
> >
> >I can't resist adding a few thoughts to this thread.
> >
> >When one asks clients the if the therapy helped them then habitually
> >you get 80%+ saying Yes. This is an important finding but needs
> >thinking about. Therapy is such a process of influence.
> >
> >According to John McLeod in a paper he presented at SPR Chicago in
> >2000 if you then do an in-depth research interview in which you
> >invite theex client to consider ways in which the therapy was not
> >helpful you end up with a figure of 50-60% saying it was helpful.
> >
> >So how you research that simple question 'Is therapy helpful?' will
> >alter what you find.
> >
> >However other human forms of helping such as consulting my GP
> >are equally problematic, in determining does it work.
> >
> >A lot of conventional research into drug treatments or therapy
> >carefully selects who is treated, this might involve choosing 100 out
> >of 800 people screened so that their condition fits a research
> >protocol. Real life is often messier. Clients have multiple
> >problems. Many clients don't reveal on their first session what is at
> >the root of their problem.
> >
> >Enough for now.
> >
> >Best wishes,
> >
> >William West
> >
> >
>
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