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Interesting.Whatever the explanation, GET is the only group to show no improvement during follow-up. Even with no additional therapy, both the SMC controls and the APT group improved, as indeed did CBT. The failure of GET patients to respond to adequate additional CBT therapy is curious, not consistent with the claims made and does not look 'promising' for either GET or CBT.
I already bunged it on the extant KL thread:
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/keith-lawss-thought-on-pace-follow-up-study.40934/
Interesting points on follow up data with regard to CBT/GET effectiveness.
... and consistent with what patients have been saying all along.Interesting.