According to the APA's Clinical Psychology Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures, in order for a psychosocial intervention to be considered for inclusion in the list of empirically supported treatments, it has to meet which of the following criteria when there have been at least two good between-group design experiments?
A)superior to pill or psychological placebo or to another treatment
B)equivalent to an already established treatment in experiments with adequate statistical power
C)a history of at least ten years of implementation by practitioners
D)both a and b

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According to the APA's Clinical Psychology Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures, a psychosocial intervention must meet both criteria (a) superior to pill or psychological placebo or to another treatment and (b) equivalent to an already established treatment in experiments with adequate statistical power to be considered for inclusion in the list of empirically supported treatments. The criterion of having a history of at least ten years of implementation by practitioners is not included in the requirements for inclusion on the list.