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>We performed an umbrella review evaluating the current evidence of psychotherapy effectiveness for a wide range of outcomes in 247 meta-analyses. An impressive 80% of the meta-analyses report a nominally (P ≤ 0.05) statistically significant random-effects summary estimate that favours the experimental psychotherapy treatment. However, our results indicate that the effectiveness of psychotherapy is often exaggerated. Only 16 of the assessed meta-analyses found to provide convincing evidence indicating that several published meta-analyses in the field could be susceptible to biases. The most robust evidence was found for meta-analyses evaluating meditation therapy and CBT for anxiety symptoms, combination of mixed types of psychotherapy and CBT for depressive symptoms, CBT for tinnitus distress, mixed types of psychotherapies for mental health symptoms and daily functioning in irritable bowel syndrome,cognitive remediation therapy for cognitive functioning in schizophrenia, CBT and counselling for smoking cessation as well as computerized CBT for depression in insomniac patients. Hence, our findings suggest that the largest body of the published evidence is eventually ambiguous in the present field, including well-established treatments such as CBT.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acps.12713
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acps.12713