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P London

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PubMed1991

Communication in relationships and adolescent substance use: the influence of parents and friends.

This study focused on the openness of communication in teenagers' relationships with mother, father (or parental figure), and closest friend, and its correlation with teenagers' use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs. The predictive value for substance use of perceived pressure from friends, friends' substance use, and parents' substance use was also analyzed. The findings from questionnaires and interviews conducted with 37 students at an urban and a suburban/rural high school in New England are reported. The results suggest that the degree to which adolescents talk openly with their parents may influence the extent of their substance use. The presence of at least one "open" parental figure was associated with lower levels of all substance use. However, there was no evidence that openness with a close friend or perceived pressure from friends is related to substance use.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

Signal and noise in psychotherapy. The role and control of non-specific factors.

Four major categories of non-specific or common factors are systematically analysed: relationship, expectancy, reorganising, and impact factors. The placebo control method should be discarded in psychotherapy research for two reasons: (a) sham treatment controls are unworkable because common factors in treatment are manifest only when real treatment is administered; and (b) the very events which were once thought of as 'non-specific' noise are now recognised as active therapeutic factors common to many schools.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1982

Evaluating psychotherapy.

The authors analyze the possible need for a standing national group to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the psychotherapies. The current need is for a body whose function is more scientifically evaluative and less regulatory than the Food and Drug Administration because available psychotherapies are less specific in their beneficial effects and less dangerous than are drugs and because the practice of psychotherapy cannot be restricted entirely to the health professions. Even so, the authors believe the main criteria for discerning the boundaries between research and established practice are in principle at least as clear for psychotherapy as for other health interventions.

Consumer Behavior↗