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Monica Pignotti, MSW, PhD
Evidence-Based Practice, Critical Thinking and its flip-side, Pseudoscience
Monica Pignotti, MSW, PhD.
Statement of Support for Monica Pignotti: Click here to read and/or sign
If you Google Monica Pignotti, Click Here and Read This First
FORGERY ALERT! Someone is posting in my name, Monica Pignotti, claiming to be me and posting that I am offering various adoption and counseling services that I am not, in fact offering. The postings are all done through anonymous remailers that I had nothing to do with. If you see a posting with my name on it that is from "Anne Onime" "George Orwell" or "Nomen Nescio" or "Anonymous" you can be 100% sure that they did not come from me because these are all the names of anonymous remailers and I never post under anonymous remailers.
New Publication of my research:
Monica Pignotti and Bruce Thyer
Novel Unsupported and Empirically Supported Therapies: Patterns of Usage Among Licensed Clinical Social Workers
Be sure to check out my new blogs:
Monica Pignotti: The Truth
http://monicapignotti.wordpress.com/
Potentially Harmful and other Questionable Therapies
http://phtherapies.wordpress.com/
Cyber Abuse Awareness
http://cyabuseaware.blogspot.com/
Monica Pignotti's Journal of Clinical Psychology Articles on Thought Field Therapy
Retraction of 2001 Article on Thought Field Therapy and Heart Rate Variability
Callahan Fails to Meet the Burden of Proof for Thought Field Therapy's Claims
Copyright Notice for the above-two articles: The journal gives authors the rights to post their articles on their own websites, but no one may copy this article and post it elsewhere. Doing so is considered in violation of copyright law and will be dealt with accordingly.
Evidence-Based Practice
Watch evidence-based practice on television! A refreshing change after all the woo we see on TV. This program features an evidence-based therapy for OCD called Exposure and Response Prevention, carried out in a group setting by Dr. David Tolin.
The Cochrane Collaboration
The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse
Contains evidence-based ratings on interventions for children
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals: A Skills-Based Workbook
by Leonard Gibbs and Eileen Gambrill
Teaching and Learning About Critical Thinking
Pseudoscience and Other Nonscientific Practices
Scott Lilienfeld on Psychological Treatments that Cause Harm
Health Fraud
Brandon Gaudiano's Debunking TFT
Journals
Research on Social Work Practice
Monica Pignotti is on the Editorial Board of this Journal, which specializes in intervention research and program evaluations.
The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
Highly recommended, rigorous peer reviewed journal that provides critical analysis of novel unsupported therapies and other research and reviews.
How to be a Good Mental Health Consumer
Abusive Authoritarian Groups and Relationships
The International Cultic Studies Association
Recommended Blogs
Monica Pignotti's Blog
Psychotherapy Brown Bag
Excellent blog. Contains article that accurately describes my work
Jean Mercer's Child Myths Psychology Today Blog
[Important update: The reason the above link is no longer active is because after Dr. Mercer won a small claims lawsuit against her over the contents of her Psychology Today blog, she moved her blog to another host. Click here to view her new blog. Contrary to misinformation that has been posted about this matter, Psychology Today did not "fire" or suspend Dr. Mercer's blog. Click here for an accurate account of what actually transpired.
Bella DePaulo's Living Single Psychology Today Blog
Exposes myths, stereotypes and misrepresentations of research about people who are single
Scott Lilienfeld's Psychology Today Blog: The Skeptical Psychologist
Science-Based Medicine
Statement of Support for Monica Pignotti: Click here to read and/or sign
If you Google Monica Pignotti, Click Here and Read This First
FORGERY ALERT! Someone is posting in my name, Monica Pignotti, claiming to be me and posting that I am offering various adoption and counseling services that I am not, in fact offering. The postings are all done through anonymous remailers that I had nothing to do with. If you see a posting with my name on it that is from "Anne Onime" "George Orwell" or "Nomen Nescio" or "Anonymous" you can be 100% sure that they did not come from me because these are all the names of anonymous remailers and I never post under anonymous remailers.
New Publication of my research:
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
- Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, FirstView Article
- Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2011
- DOI: 10.1017/S135246581100052X (About DOI)
- Published online: 09 September 2011
Novel Unsupported and Empirically Supported Therapies: Patterns of Usage Among Licensed Clinical Social Workers
Be sure to check out my new blogs:
Monica Pignotti: The Truth
http://monicapignotti.wordpress.com/
Potentially Harmful and other Questionable Therapies
http://phtherapies.wordpress.com/
Cyber Abuse Awareness
http://cyabuseaware.blogspot.com/
Monica Pignotti's Journal of Clinical Psychology Articles on Thought Field Therapy
Retraction of 2001 Article on Thought Field Therapy and Heart Rate Variability
Callahan Fails to Meet the Burden of Proof for Thought Field Therapy's Claims
Copyright Notice for the above-two articles: The journal gives authors the rights to post their articles on their own websites, but no one may copy this article and post it elsewhere. Doing so is considered in violation of copyright law and will be dealt with accordingly.
Evidence-Based Practice
Watch evidence-based practice on television! A refreshing change after all the woo we see on TV. This program features an evidence-based therapy for OCD called Exposure and Response Prevention, carried out in a group setting by Dr. David Tolin.
The Cochrane Collaboration
The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse
Contains evidence-based ratings on interventions for children
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals: A Skills-Based Workbook
by Leonard Gibbs and Eileen Gambrill
Teaching and Learning About Critical Thinking
Pseudoscience and Other Nonscientific Practices
Scott Lilienfeld on Psychological Treatments that Cause Harm
Health Fraud
Brandon Gaudiano's Debunking TFT
Journals
Research on Social Work Practice
Monica Pignotti is on the Editorial Board of this Journal, which specializes in intervention research and program evaluations.
The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
Highly recommended, rigorous peer reviewed journal that provides critical analysis of novel unsupported therapies and other research and reviews.
How to be a Good Mental Health Consumer
Abusive Authoritarian Groups and Relationships
The International Cultic Studies Association
Recommended Blogs
Monica Pignotti's Blog
Psychotherapy Brown Bag
Excellent blog. Contains article that accurately describes my work
Jean Mercer's Child Myths Psychology Today Blog
[Important update: The reason the above link is no longer active is because after Dr. Mercer won a small claims lawsuit against her over the contents of her Psychology Today blog, she moved her blog to another host. Click here to view her new blog. Contrary to misinformation that has been posted about this matter, Psychology Today did not "fire" or suspend Dr. Mercer's blog. Click here for an accurate account of what actually transpired.
Bella DePaulo's Living Single Psychology Today Blog
Exposes myths, stereotypes and misrepresentations of research about people who are single
Scott Lilienfeld's Psychology Today Blog: The Skeptical Psychologist
Science-Based Medicine
