Chapter 11

Question 1

attention

Answer 1

the novel approach to (focusing on) a problem

Question 2

Dianne Chambless

Answer 2

clinical psychologist, the movement toward manualized, evidence-based treatments

Question 3

common factors

Answer 3

explain how different forms of therapy can have similar effects

Question 4

dodo bird verdict

Answer 4

the idea that competing therapies are found to work about equally well

Question 5

eclectic

Answer 5

selecting the best treatment for a client based on empirical data from similar clients

Question 6

effectiveness

Answer 6

the extent to which psychotherapy works with actual clients treated by therapists in clinics (the real world)

Question 7

efficacy

Answer 7

the extent to which psychotherapy works in a controlled research study—that is, “in the lab”

Question 8

Hans Eysenck

Answer 8

published a historic study during that claimed most clients got better without therapy and that, in general, psychotherapy was of little benefit; his allegation inspired thousands of subsequent empirical studies on therapy outcome

Question 9

hope

Answer 9

positive expectations, a common factor among different psychotherapies

Question 10

integrative

Answer 10

an approach to therapy that involves blending techniques in order to create an entirely new, hybrid form of therapy

Question 11

Stanley Messer

Answer 11

argued that the prescriptive approach should be replaced by an approach that emphasizes common factors especially the therapeutic relationship

Question 12

John Norcoss

Answer 12

explained the integration movement grew out of a dissatisfaction with single-school approaches and a desire to see what could be learned from other ways of thinking

Question 13

prescriptive approach

Answer 13

an approach in which specific therapy techniques are viewed as the treatment of choice for specific disorders

Question 14

psychology

Answer 14

the scientific study of the mind and behavior, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, mental processes, and the behavior of humans and nonhumans

Question 15

states of change model

Answer 15

a sequential model that helps people understand the process of change and how to encourage and manage it.

Question 16

Hans Strupp

Answer 16

a pioneering psychotherapy researcher who identified three parties who have a stake in how well therapy works and who may have different opinions about what constitutes a successful therapy outcome, the basis of the tripartite model

Question 17

therapeutic alliance

Answer 17

the collaborative and trusting relationship between a therapist and a client

Question 18

therapeutic relationship

Answer 18

a connection between a therapist and a client that is built on trust, mutual respect, and a sense of hope

Question 19

3-stage sequential model of common factors

Answer 19

a model that suggests psychotherapists of all kinds help clients by moving them, in order, through three common steps
1) “Support factors” stage
2) “Learning factors” stage
3) “Action factors” stage

Question 20

tripartite model

Answer 20

the model that accounts for the three people who have a stake in therapy: clients, therapists, and society

Question 21

Bruce Wampold

Answer 21

College Professor, “making psychotherapy work for you”

Question 22

working alliance

Answer 22

Agreement on goals (Collaborative Goal Setting)
Agreement on interventions (Shared Decision Making)
Effective bond between patient and therapist (The Therapeutic Relationship)