Counselors and psychotherapists have begun to tap the potentials of fantasy for facilitating personal growth and therapeutic change. Through outside suggestion, a person’s fantasizing may be channeled and directed toward positive ends. (12 pp.)
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Evaluation of Behavior Change and Therapeutic Effectiveness
Evaluative research in psychiatry has had an interesting history—even exciting, especially in psychopharmacology, where experimental methods could be developed, applied, and refined most readily. With interest growing in the question of what works, the future promises further development of evaluative research. Hopefully, the pressures to evaluate particular programs will not compromise the design of studies to provide information about specific variables valid beyond the immediate context of the particular programs. (48 pp.)