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Meta-analysis of psychological assessment as a therapeutic intervention
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This study entails the use of meta-analytic techniques to calculate and analyze 18 independent and 52 nonindependent effect sizes across 17 published studies of psychological assessment as a therapeutic intervention. In this sample of studies, which involves 1,496 participants, a significant overall Cohen's d effect size of 0.423 (95% CI [0.321, 0.525]) was found, whereby 66% of treatment group means fell above the control and comparison group means. When categorical variables were taken into account, significant treatment group effects were found for therapy process variables (d = 1.117, [0.679, 1.555]), therapy outcomes (d = 0.367, [0.256, 0.478]), and combined process/outcome variables (d = 0.547, [0.193, 0.901]). These findings appear to be robust on the basis of fail-safe N calculations. Taken together, they suggest that psychological assessment procedures-when combined with personalized, collaborative, and highly involving test feedback-have positive, clinically meaningful effects on treatment, especially regarding treatment processes. They also have important implications for assessment practice, training, and policy making, as well as future research, which are discussed in the conclusion of the article.
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“Similar to other assessments in the study that met the criteria to be considered a “therapeutic assessment,” this meta-analysis indicated that CAMS assessment is indeed therapeutic in that it provides personalized, collaborative, and highly involving test feedback which contributes to positive clinically meaningful treatment effects.”
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“Poston and Hanson [36] published a meta-analysis on 17 published C/TA studies, which found favorable effects of this intervention in terms of overall effectiveness when compared to assessment as usual.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Poston, J. M., & Hanson, W. E.
- Affiliations
- Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
- ORCID
- Poston, John M.
- Venue
- Psychological Assessment
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 203-212
- ISSN
- 1040-3590 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-134X
- OpenAlex
- W2141350625
- Cited by
- 276
- References
- 75
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Assessment (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Keywords
- test feedback, collaborative assessment, treatment process, treatment outcomes, effect size, assessment training, assessment policy
- MeSH terms
- Mental Disorders, Humans, Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care, Psychological Tests, Psychotherapy, Treatment Outcome
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