| Abstract: | 63 adult outpatient clients of a community mental health center evaluated 5 methods of clinical decision making: intuition, research, therapist's informal successful experience, professional recommendation therapist, and no rationale. Clients rated their therapists' informal successful experience and the use of research as favorable decision methods. Clients thought that their therapists would also rate these methods as favorable. We conclude that clients want their therapists to make clinical decisions on the basis of informal experience in which the efficacy of the recommendations is demonstrated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
