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Originally Posted by BudFox
And as usual no mention of the risk of harm. They seem only concerned with whether their interventions might be "ineffective". Does it even occur to them that a person with developmental trauma might suffer serious damage from a poorly controlled, engineered relationship with a stranger?
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That wasn't the focus of the article, but there was mention of it:
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The wrong therapy, by the wrong therapist or with the wrong timing (or a combination thereof) may be psychonoxious.
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They also mentioned the need to collect data on those who dropped out.
To keep in line with feileacan's points, a scientific study would document everything that went wrong as much as it would document what went right, so there would be more data on that aspect to add to the article, i agree with you. I think they framed the article to inform public health policy rather than information about the treatments themselves, but that could be an improvement.
The journal accepts comments to the articles, perhaps if you or anyone submit a comment in reply to the article, the authors will consider adding that point to their next paper. It's open-access, so there are no restrictions to copyright as long as the citation is there, so you (or anyone) could repost the whole article on Psych Central, submitting your commentary.
I think open access articles help spread the word about important issues that affect public health and that this group did a great job at explaining why services are inadequate for certain patient populations.