INTERVENTION FUNDAMENTALS AND ADULTS PT.4

Question 1

Most individuals who pursue therapy attend __ to __ sessions

Answer 1

5-13

Question 2

Some individuals will receive ______ which may delate success rates

Answer 2

non-EBT

Question 3

What is “Stepped-Care”

Answer 3

beginning with least-intrusive and expensive measures and only offering specialized and expensive services as needed

Question 4

Hans Eysenck published an article concluding psychotherapy was no more effective than no therapy, what were some problems with this study

Answer 4

1. lack of control groups
2. using untreated individuals as examples of psychotherapy patients
3. failing to control for other variables

Question 5

What is an issue with Meta-analysis in proving for successful treatment

Answer 5

comparing research reports by different investigators, using different approaches. with different patients is problematic (difficult to establish a common metric)

Question 6

What are 3 ways we can solve the issues of meta-analysis

Answer 6

1) express the differences between treatment and control groups in terms of size

2) calculate the correlation between group membership and symptoms

3) calculate the percentage of individuals in the treatment group who score above the mean value of the control group

Question 7

What are 2 criticisms of RCT”s (randomized clinical trials)

Answer 7

1) May inaccurately portray real-world patients
2) Participants tend to be more severe symptomatically than the average patient