The purpose of this research is to provide information about the state of psychotherapy in Argentina, as well as to study some variables involved in psychologists' evaluation of psychotherapy. A survey of 14 items was elaborated ad-hoc for this purpose, and administered to 226 psychologists from all over the country by mail and, in some cases, personally. Results suggest that the predisposition...

OBJECTIVE To explore factors affecting collaboration between family physicians and psychologists. DESIGN Mailed French-language survey. SETTING Eastern Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Family physicians practising in the area of the Réseau des services de santé en français de l'Est de l'Ontario. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Physicians' knowledge and understanding of the qualifications of psychologists an...

Introduction: Since the Australian Government introduced the “Better Access to Mental Health Services” program in 2006, psychiatrists, psychologists and general practitioners (GPs) have become increasingly involved in service provision for people seeking help with mental health problems. The aim of this research was to a) explore psychologists’ perceptions of difficult to treat depression (DTTD...

Psychologists often do not consider the optimality of their research designs. However, increasing costs of using inefficient designs requires psychologists to adopt more efficient designs and to use more powerful analysis strategies. Common designs with many factor levels and equal allocations of observations are often inefficient for the specific questions most psychologists want to answer. Ha...