Reaction to attributional counseling.

In developing new treatments, it is important to establish treatment effectiveness before conducting process analyses involving the matching of individual difference variables with these treatments. The present author responds to the recent studies by N. L. Forsyth and D. R. Forsyth (see record 1982-21878-001) and raises questions about the effectiveness of attributional treatment in light of possible deterioration effects. (2 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)