Module 31: Efficacy of Psychological Interventions

Question 1

For what cases is psychodynamic therapy treated as the most helpful?

Answer 1

Psychodynamic therapy seems to help most in cases of depression that are modest or moderate in severity and that involve clear history of childhood loss or trauma

Question 2

Which are better: shorter or longer psychodynamic therapies?

Answer 2

Short-term psychodynamic therapies have performed better than long-term approaches, especially when they are combined with psychotropic medications

Question 3

What helps most patients to have fewer new episodes of manic episodes?

Answer 3

Most patients have fewer new episodes of manic episodes by taking lithium and other mood stabilizers

Question 4

What is the percentage of patients who have reduced positive symptoms of schizophrenia as a result of antipsychotic drugs?

Answer 4

Antipsychotic drugs reduced positive symptoms in around 70% of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia

Question 5

What is an effective therapy for phobia?

Answer 5

Exposure therapies are effective with phobias

Question 6

What is are treatments helpful for panic disorder?

Answer 6

Benzodiazepines can be effective in many cases of panic disorder, although they are used less often than depressants

Question 7

Which is better in treating panic disorders: CBT or antidepressant drugs?

Answer 7

CBT are equally effective as antidepressant drugs in the treatment of panic disorders

Question 8

What is the percentage or possibility of antidepressant drugs helping individuals with OCD?

Answer 8

Antidepressant drugs bring improvement to between 50 and 60 percent of those with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Question 9

What happens to the brain of individuals with OCD who respond successfully to antidepressant treatment?

Answer 9

Structures in the circuit do indeed seem to
interconnect more appropriately after individuals with OCD respond successfully to antidepressant treatment

Question 10

Is long-term psychodynamic therapy more helpful for unipolar depression?

Answer 10

Long-term psychodynamic therapy is only occasionally helpful in cases of unipolar depression

Question 11

What approaches are being combined to help minority clients overcome their disorders?

Answer 11

Culture-Sensitive approaches increasingly are being combined with traditional forms of psychotherapy to help minority clients overcome their disorders

Question 12

What is a good treatment for severe depression?

Answer 12

ECT has apparent effectiveness with severe depression, especially when patients follow up the initial cluster of sessions with continuation or maintenance therapy, either ongoing antidepressant medications or periodic ECT sessions

Question 13

What are good and effective treatments for unipolar depression?

Answer 13

CBT, Interpersonal, and Biological Therapies are all effective treatment for unipolar depression

However, drug therapy reduced depressive symptoms more quickly than CB and Interpersonal therapies, but these psychotherapies had matched the drugs in effectiveness by the final 4 weeks of treatment

Question 14

What treatments lower the likelihood of relapse?

Answer 14

CBT and Interpersonal Therapies lower the
likelihood of relapse

Question 15

What do token economies help with?

Answer 15

Token Economies help reduce psychotic and related behaviors, however, its uncontrolled

Question 16

What is the best treatment for schizophrenia?

Answer 16

Drugs appear more effective treatment for schizophrenia than any other approaches used alone, such as psychotherapy, milieu therapy, or electroconvulsive therapy

Question 17

What therapy is successful in many cases of schizophrenia?

Answer 17

Psychotherapy is successful in many more cases of schizophrenia these days (CBT, Family Therapy, Social Therapy)

Question 18

What does cognitive remediation bring in people with schizophrenia?

Answer 18

For people with schizophrenia, cognitive remediation brings about moderate improvements in attention, planning, memory, and problem-solving

Question 19

How do CBTs help people with schizophrenia?

Answer 19

CBTs often help people with schizophrenia feel more control over their hallucinations and reduce their delusional ideas

Question 20

What is better: shorter or longer exposure therapy when it comes to phobia?

Answer 20

For certain phobia, such as small-animal phobia, flying phobia, claustrophobia, BI phobia, exposure therapy is often highly effective when administered in a single long session

Question 21

What is true about medication treatments?

Answer 21

Medication treatments are ineffective by themselves, and there is even some evidence that anti-anxiety medications may interfere with beneficial effects of exposure therapy

Question 22

What is true about D-Cycloserine?

Answer 22

D-Cycloserine can enhance the effectiveness of exposure therapy for fear of heights in a virtual reality environment

Question 23

Who shows a greater likelihood of relapse for panic disorder?

Answer 23

In the long-term, after medication for panic disorder has been tapered, clients who have been on medication with or without cognitive or behavioral treatment seem to show a greater likelihood of relapse

Question 24

What is true about CBT?

Answer 24

CBT has been found to be useful in helping people who have used benzodiazepines for over a year to successfully taper their medications

Question 25

What is a disadvantage of medication treatment for OCD?

Answer 25

A major disadvantage of medication treatment for OCD is that when the medication is discontinued relapse rates are generally very high

Question 26

What is one of the most helpful therapies for patients with anorexia?

Answer 26

Family therapy is more helpful for some patients with Anorexia Nervosa then for others

Question 27

What is the most effective treatment for BPD?

Answer 27

DBT, the most effective treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder

Question 28

What is true about positive family interaction therapy?

Answer 28

Positive Family Interaction Therapy demonstrated 70% response rate compared to more traditional model of individual CBT with psychoeducation