Strength + Counterpoint

Another strength is that counselling psychology has been found to be…

Effective

For example, Elliot (2002) showed in a meta-analysis of ___ studies that humanistic therapies prompted significant improvements in clients when compared to patients _________________

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Not receiving treatments

However, Rogers was an advocate of…

Non-experimental methods

This makes it impossible to _____________ of counselling as without experimental evidence, evaluation of this therapy becomes ________

Verify the results

Difficult

Dome studies have shown personal growth as a result of receiving counselling psychology, but these do not show that the therapy _______________, a fundamental requirement of scientific psychology

Caused the change