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When conducting your own search, you don't have to read every study that you find. You can examine their titles and abstracts to ascertain which ones are worth reading.

For example, many years ago, when Rubin conducted a review of the effectiveness of EMDR versus exposure therapy in treating PTSD, he encountered an abstract depicting a study that concluded that EMDR helps “bereaved individuals experience what they believe is actual spiritual contact with the deceased” (Botkin, 2000, p. 181). He could tell from the title of the study that it was not relevant to his review regarding PTSD. (But given its bizarre claim, he read it anyway!)

You can decide which studies to read based on the relevance of the study to your practice question as well as any mention in the abstract of attributes that might tip you off about the quality of the study. For example, if one abstract tells you that the study offers a practitioner's anecdotal account of providing exposure therapy to one client, and another abstract depicts a large, multisite experiment evaluating the effectiveness of exposure therapy with many clients, you might be more predisposed to read the latter study. Much of this book is devoted to giving you the information and understanding you'll need to appraise the quality of the various studies you'll find. This brings us to the next step in the EIP process: critically appraising studies and reviews.