General Issues In Psychotherapy

Question 1

This person in 1952 published a controversial study suggesting psychotherapy had little benefit?

Answer 1

Hans Eysenck

Question 2

Effectiveness

Answer 2

The ability for psychotherapy to work in the real world with great external validity. In 1995, Consumer Reports reported people polled that therapy worked, and that more sessions were better

Question 3

Efficacy

Answer 3

The ability for psychotherapy to work in the lab with great internal validity. The result of many efficacy studies is that psychotherapy works. Landmark meta-analysis stating 80% of people were better after psychotherapy than those with a placebo.

Question 4

Dodo Bird Effect

Answer 4

All Psychotherapies are equally beneficial because of fundamental common factors shared across all psychotherapies like the therapeutic relationship, hope, and attention

Question 5

Dr. ______________ challenged the Dodo bird verdict because not all specific therapies can work equally as well furthermore how not enough of the meta-analyses used effectiveness studies.

Answer 5

Diane Chambless

Question 6

What is the most commonly endorsed type of psychotherapy?

Answer 6

Eclectic-integrative meaning blending multiple approaches or using an assortment of therapies

Question 7

The endorsement and use of what type of therapy decreased significantly since the 1960s?

Answer 7

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Question 8

What type of therapy has had a remarkable increase in usage since the 1980s?

Answer 8

Cognitive Therapy

Question 9

What is the highest used format clinical psychologists use?

Answer 9

Individual Psychotherapy

Question 10

What type of therapy is predicted to be increasingly used in the future?

Answer 10

Cognitive & Behavioral Psychotherapy

Question 11

____________ therapy involves selecting the best treatment for a given client based on empirical data from studies of treatment of similar clients.

Answer 11

Eclectic

Question 12

__________ therapy involving blending techniques in order to create an entirely new, hybrid form of therapy.

Answer 12

Integrative

Question 13

What are some outcomes of psychotherapy?

Answer 13

Chiles in 1999 reported an effect of psychotherapy was lowered medical costs and less days in the hospital versus those who received no psychotherapy spent more days in hospital and more medical costs

An fMRI or a PET brain scans can see physical changes after psychotherapy