Lecture 1 Flashcards
What is psychotherapy? (x2)
- The treatment of mental disorders by psychological means
or
- a psychological approach to relieving human suffering
Approximately ____ people will be directly or indirectly affected by mental health problems in their lifetime.
1 in 4
psychotherapy is _____ driven and _____-based.
- theory
- evidence
according to murdock, a good theory has (x5) (PEPPS)
- precision and testability
- parsimony (the simplest explanation for the data)
- practicality (readily applied)
- stimulation (gets people excited)
- empirical validity (case-study, meta-analysis, RCT)
What are the stages of psychotherapy? (x5)
- assessment and observation
- case formulation
- intervention plan
- intervention implementation
- evaluation
are psychotherapists registered health professionals?
NO
What are the types of evaluation studies?
- single-case study
- efficacy studies (is it valid in the lab)
- Cochrane library reviews (web database for evidence)
- effectiveness studies (is it valid in real world)
- systematic reviews and meta-analysis
what is an efficacy study?
An assessment of the INTERNAL VALIDITY of an experimental design.
The results of effectiveness studies are generally less _______ but are more ______ than efficacy studies.
- impressive
- generalisable
What is an effectiveness study? What determines the effect size of the intervention?
- An assessment of the EXTERNAL VALIDITY of an experimental design.
- within-subject changes pre to post-intervention.
clients of psychotherapy have been found to improve more than about _____ percent of untreated clients.
80
What is the dodo bird conjecture?
- that all psychotherapies, regardless of their specific components produce equivalent outcomes.
Lambert and Barely found that the factor accounting for most of the variance in therapeutic change was?
Therapeutic alliance accounted for how many percent?
- extra-therapeutic change (40%)
- 30%
