Module 54 - Evaluating Psychotherapies

Question 1

Confirmation Bias:

Answer 1

Selective attention to supporting evidence for one’s beliefs.

Question 2

Is Psychotherapy Effective?

Clinicians’ Perspective

Answer 2

Perceive therapy as effective based on track record. Therapy ends when client appears recovered (high point)
Gives illusion of high success rate (but may relapse and not return to that or any clinician).

Question 3

Is Psychotherapy Effective? (Outcome Research)

Answer 3

Controlled research with control groups

Typhoid treated by bloodletting over 5 week period (then showed that 5 weeks of rest as effective)

Question 4

Meta-Analysis:

Answer 4

a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.

Question 5

Alternative Therapies:

Answer 5

1. Energy Therapies
2. Recovered-memory Therapy
3. Rebirthing Therapies
4. Ancestral Healing Therapy or Past Life Regression

Question 6

Energy therapies:

Answer 6

manipulations of invisible energy fields

Question 7

Recovered-memory (age regression) therapy:

Answer 7

unearthing of repressed childhood traumas

Question 8

Rebirthing therapies:

Answer 8

crawl out of birth canal to start over

Question 9

Re-evolutionary Therapy:

Answer 9

Re-experience your evolutionary past (starting at the beginning)

Question 10

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)

Answer 10

Just another therapy

Question 11

Why do most therapies work?

Answer 11

1. Hope
2. New Perspective
3. The Therapist