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- Title
A CRITIQUE OF SYSTEMATIC THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY.
- Authors
Ellis, Albert
- Abstract
The article reports that the systematic theoretical approach to clinical research largely makes use of the hypothetico-deductive experimental method. Researchers who utilize this method normally frame a distinct hypothesis along fairly broad theoretical lines, construct their instruments or technique in accordance with this hypothesis, and set up their experiments so that they will ultimately sustain or disprove this hypothesis. In the discussion that is to follow, researchers shall attempt to criticize both the empirical and the hypothetico deductive experimental methods as they are usually applied to research in clinical psychology.
- Subjects
CLINICAL psychology; PSYCHIATRY; MEDICAL research; APPLIED psychology; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1952, Vol 8, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0021-9762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/1097-4679(195201)8:1<11::AID-JCLP2270080104>3.0.CO;2-L