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Is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Effective as a Standalone Treatment for Substance Use Disorders? An Evaluation Using the Tolin Criteria

Society of Clinical Psychology

In other words, how do we know if a given psychosocial treatment is effective for a given mental disorder? In 2015, Division 12 revised and updated its criteria for evaluating the efficacy of psychological treatments by adopting what has since been referred to as the “Tolin Criteria.” Enter: the APA’s “Tolin Criteria.”

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Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

It was at this point that the NIMH moved away from a psychosocial model that focused on specific psychological problems and adopted more of a medical model to treating psychological problems, construing psychological problems more as disorders.