47. Impact and Effectiveness of Therapies

Question 1

permit therapeutic benefits from groups in interaction explores social behaviors and developing social skills, and provides feedback for new ways of behaving

Answer 1

group therapies

Question 2

is a therapy that treats family as a unit or system rather than simply a group of individuals

Answer 2

family therapies

Question 3

group therapies: 1. ________ and more time 2. _______ w/ similar results to 3. ___________ therapies

Answer 3

1. cheaper
2. effective
3. individual

Question 4

family therapies (FT): views 1. _________ behaviors as 2. ___________ by or 3. ______ at other family members

Answer 4

1. unwanted
2. influenced
3. directed

Question 5

FT: focuses on 1. ________ relationships b/w fam members and looks for new ways of 2. _______ or resolving 3. ________

Answer 5

1. healing
2. preventing
3. conflicts

Question 6

individualistic — caters to personal desires and identity (how the individual can change or deal w/ stress)

Answer 6

west therapy

Question 7

people coming from 1. ______ culture have 2. ________ adjusting to 3. ________ therapy that require them to think about 4. ______ own well-being

Answer 7

1. eastern
2. trouble
3. western
4. their

Question 8

1. ___ is now mindful of this 2. _________ and offer 3. ________ ________ ________ and underrepresented 4. ______ cultures as therapists

Answer 8

1. APA
2. disconnect
3. cultural sensitivity training
4. eastern

Question 9

on a political or theological level, patients tend to 1. ______ therapists’ views, which can 2. ______ treatment, and 3. _____ afterwards

Answer 9

1. adopt
2. affect
3. views

Question 10

found that 2/3 of patients got better w/ treatment for non-psychotic issues

Answer 10

Hans Eysenck

Question 11

found out that the other portion who didn’t receive treatment, ____ got better anyways

Answer 11

2/3

Question 12

Eysenck’s small study brought up the question if therapy is actually ________

Answer 12

helpful

Question 13

psychotherapeutic results are 1. _____ to read, as 2. ___________ improvements such as 3. ____-______ and and less 4. ______ offer no 5. __________ #s to read

Answer 13

1. hard
2. psychological
3. self-concept
4. anxiety
5. measurable

Question 14

patients can be overly 1. _________ afterwards, can 2. _______ their treatments were 3. _____ in order for them to work when it may not have been the case

Answer 14

1. optimistic
2. believe
3. needed

Question 15

study of the 500 juvenile delinquents (explain the study)

Answer 15

250 got therapy and said it was the reason why they didn’t go back to jail, but 4% more from this group was incarcerated than the 250 that received nothing

Question 16

who determined the effectiveness of psychotherapy

Answer 16

Mary Lee Smith

Question 17

a procedure for combining the results of hundreds of different therapy studies to different therapy studies to look for effectiveness of therapy

Answer 17

meta-analysis

Question 18

Smith’s study revealed that 1. ____ have poorer outcomes than those who 2. ___ have therapy

Answer 18

1. 80%

2. did

Question 19

how many studies did Smith study?

Answer 19

475

Question 20

also showed that therapy 1. _______ overall costs of 2. __________ for 3. ____________ discomfort

Answer 20

1. reduces
2. treatments
3. psychological

Question 21

considering medication, substance abuse, or lost time, therapists save costs in the _____ ____.

Answer 21

long run