Arthur Becker-Weidman (response to Mercer)

Mercer states that I ?administered the RADQ and a behavior checklist to parents of 34 children before and after CRT.? As stated above, the treatment was not CRT but Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. More disturbing is the omission by Mercer of the fact that there was a control group of 30 children in the study. The inclusion of the control group was specifically to address issues of maturation and the possibility of spontaneous improvement. The study found that ?Significant reductions were achieved in all measures studied . . . There were not changes in the usual-care group subjects (who received play therapy, individual therapy, family therapy, and other treatment from other providers not at the Center For Family Development).[5]? Both groups showed no differences on a variety of demographic variables measured, and they showed no differences on their pretest scores on the Achenbach. The 2 groups? post-test scores were based on instruments completed over 1 year after treatm ent ended, about 2 years after the initial test scores. The use of the control group, which was matched with the treatment group, makes Mercer?s statement regarding maturational change and change caused ?during the time of treatment but not because of treatment,? wrong.

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