Raising Awareness for the Replication Crisis in Clinical Psychology by Focusing on Inconsistencies in Psychotherapy Research: How Much Can We Rely on Published Findings from Efficacy Trials?

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Michael P Hengartner. Front Psychol. 2018.

. 2018 Feb 28:9:256.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00256. eCollection 2018.

¹ Department of Applied Psychology, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Keywords: allegiance; clinical psychology; effectiveness; efficacy; methodology; psychotherapy research; publication bias; replication.

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