Chapter 13: Intervention Children and adolescents

Question 1

Coercive exchanges

Answer 1

parent child interactions in which the parent unintentionally reinforces the child for whining or aggression and the chid rewards the parent for giving in

Question 2

ecological theory

Answer 2

a theory that examines a young person’s functioning w/n the multiple contexts in which he or she lives - family, school…

Question 3

mood monitoring

Answer 3

tracking mood on a regular basis

Question 4

psychhoeducation

Answer 4

teaching psych concepts to clients in a manner that is accessible to them

Question 5

time out

Answer 5

neg punishment

Question 6

Gerald Patterson

Answer 6

parent management training
foundation for evidence based parenting services
grounded in the theory that oppositional behaviour can be changed by modifying the childs environment instead of working directly with the child

Question 7

Alan Kazdin

Answer 7

discrepancy bw nature of psychotherapy research and the nature of clinical practice
treatment research relies on volunteers

researchers pay great attention to characteristics of the client or therapist that might influence outcome of treatment

Question 8

John Weisz

Answer 8

Psychotherapy researcher
if a treatment uses an artificial activity to train a skill then it is unfair to use a score on that same activity as a measure of treatment outcome
outcome should measured by real world acitiities that had been targeted in treatment
effect size of .79 for behavioural approaches

Question 9

Peter Lewinsohm

Answer 9

Coping with depression in adolescents
assumes genetic factors for depression ris
treatemtnon behaviours, cognitions, and affect management