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1/ JAMA: "High nonresponse & dropout rates suggest mismatch between complex clinical reality of military-related PTSD and one size-fits-all treatment approaches in VA"
"...do not effectively manage PTSD in large % of patients" #cbtworks #somepsych #psysci
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"...do not effectively manage PTSD in large % of patients" #cbtworks #somepsych #psysci
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
2/ Talking point emailed from VA central office: "Disseminating [same one-size treatments] through national training initiatives is appropriate given that these treatments have the most robust evidence of effectiveness."
Someone invested in "alternative facts."
JAMA or VA?
Someone invested in "alternative facts."
JAMA or VA?
3/ Therapies in question were NEVER tested against relationship-based talk therapy as practiced by most psychotherapists.
How can a treatment have "most robust evidence" when never compared to psychotherapy as practiced in real world by most psychotherapists?
How can a treatment have "most robust evidence" when never compared to psychotherapy as practiced in real world by most psychotherapists?
Time traveling to 1948 to discuss Edward C. Tolman's "Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men" for my last and final thread for @kwassum's course on instrumental conditioning. JMO, Tolman was ahead of his time, thumbed his nose at McCarthyism, and was a Learning Theorist bad@ss. #scicomm
In his studies of learning in rats, Tolman sought to demonstrate that the mechanisms by which rats (and humans) learn to maneuver through the world involve robust, flexible, autonomous and selective mechanisms that form a cognitive-like map in the brain.
Tolman's ideology was quite different than the rival theory of the day that favored a stimulus-response (S-R) reinforcement-driven view where learning was an automatic response triggered by environmental stimuli. (Tolman pictured all by his onesies on the right 👇). 
