General Issues In Psychotherapy Flashcards

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

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Hans Eysenck

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Effectiveness

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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

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Efficacy

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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.

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Dodo Bird Effect

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

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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.

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Diane Chambless

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What is the most commonly endorsed type of psychotherapy?

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

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

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Psychodynamic psychotherapy

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

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Cognitive Therapy

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What is the highest used format clinical psychologists use?

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Individual Psychotherapy

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

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Cognitive & Behavioral Psychotherapy

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

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Eclectic

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

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Integrative

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What are some outcomes of psychotherapy?

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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

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