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Meta-analysis of Comparative Therapy Outcome Studies: a Reply to Wilson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

David A. Shapiro  and
Diana Shapiro
David A. Shapiro
Affiliation:
MRC/SSRC Social and Applied Psychology Unit, University of Sheffield North Derbyshire Psychology Service
Diana Shapiro
Affiliation:
MRC/SSRC Social and Applied Psychology Unit, University of Sheffield North Derbyshire Psychology Service
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Wilson's recent critique of the authors' appraisal of meta-analysis appears to misunderstand them as claiming more for meta-analysis than they intended. The present paper seeks to clarify consequent confusions concerning selection of studies, the quality of the literature reviewed, the classification of therapies, and the non-identical results of different meta-analyses. It is acknowledged that no single meta-analysis is definitive.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 1982 , pp. 307 - 310
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1982

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