Article Critique: Part 2: Article Analysis

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Lin Article Critique: Part 2 Stormie R. Baez Liberty University Critique of Population and Sampling, Procedures and Measurements Population and Sampling As defined by Pyrczak (2013), this article contains a section that follow the introduction that discusses the population and sampling for this study. In this article the authors chose to label this section’ “Participants and Setting” (Lin, 2004, p. 1115). In this section it was discovered that this study did not use a randomized sample. The participants were selected from a specific demographic. The participants all had a history of chronic to severe addiction as well as comorbid psychiatric diagnosis. The target group for this study was determined by answers received on several assessment tests combined with the fact that each participant was also drafted from a drug…show more content…
The groups of participants were generalized to a specific demographic however they were then randomly assigned to either the Forgiveness Therapy group or the Alcohol and Drug counseling treatment group. The treatments were described as being administered over twelve sessions by a therapist who typically practices ADC however the therapists was extensively trained prior to this study to administer the FT protocol. The sessions were all recorded and viewed by independent parties to ensure congruence and efficacy (Lin, 2004). The article did a poor job of indicating if the participants were all under the exact same conditions. It is affirmed that the sessions themselves were equal in conditions, however it did not detail whether all of the participants remained in intensive residential facilities, on their own, etc… As previously stated above the participants did provide informed consent and all treatment appears to be ethically as well as politically correct. The experiment was conducted in a credible

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