Chapter 12: Intervention Adults and Couples

Question 1

benchmarking strategy

Answer 1

the use of data from empirical studies to provide a comparison against which the effectiveness of clinical services can be gauged

Question 2

clinical practice guidelines

Answer 2

a summary of scientific research, dealing with the diagnosis, assessment, and/or treatment of a disorder, designed to provide guidance to clinicians providing services to patients with the disorder

Question 3

effect size

Answer 3

a standardized metric, correlations or standard deviations, that allows for the results of research studies to be combined and analyzed

Question 4

empirically supported treatment

Answer 4

a psychotherapy that has been found, in a series of RCTs or single-participant designs, to be efficacious in the treatment of a specific condition

Question 5

open trial

Answer 5

a type of initial, exploratory treatment study in which no control group is used and few participant exclusion criteria is applied

Question 6

RCT

Answer 6

participants randomly assigned to one of two or more treatment conditions

Question 7

Dianne Chambless

Answer 7

chair of task force of the APA for the promotion and dissemination of psychological procedures
to set a standard for defining treatment efficacy
looked at ESTs

Question 8

Hans Eysenck

Answer 8

published an article in which he argued that the rates of improvement among clients receiving psychodynamic or elclectic therapy were comparable to, or even worse than, rates of remission among unrelated clients

proponent of learning theory

Question 9

Gene Glass & Mary Smith

Answer 9

first meta analysis of psych literature to review treatment outcomes