LearningCurve Module 54. Evaluating Psychotherapies

Approximately _____ percent of all clinical psychologists work in private practice.

50

Drew's therapist believes in using only empirically supported therapies for treating his insomnia. She will probably use _____ therapy.

cognitive

According to one study, good therapies share much in common, including:

hope for demoralized people.

Delores has been in therapy for two years, but her last session is today. If you ask her next month how effective her psychotherapy was, she is likely to:

overestimate its effectiveness.

Clients may overvalue therapy because they:

put much effort into therapy.

The textbook discusses an experiment with 500 Massachusetts boys, aged 5 to 13 years, many of whom seemed bound for delinquency. Half were randomly assigned to a five-year treatment program. Thirty years later, when compared with the boys NOT assigned to the program, the boys who were assigned to the program were _____ likely to have committed new offenses.

slightly more

There is a civil war currently underway regarding the effectiveness of psychotherapy. There are those who support the use of scientific methods to determine which therapies are the most effective for various people and disorders. Then there are those who:

view psychotherapy as something that cannot be described in a manual or tested in an experiment.

Christopher has a two-year master's degree and specializes in helping those with a history of substance use disorder. Christopher is MOST likely a:

counselor.

Dr. Wagner works in a large hospital. She specializes in treating adolescents with eating disorders. She prescribes antidepressants and, occasionally, antianxiety medication for some of her patients. Based on this information, Dr. Wagner is a:

psychiatrist.

What is one reason it is always challenging to determine treatment effectiveness in the real world?

There is no way to control what happens in a person's life outside of therapy.

Therapy is likely to be MOST effective when a client's problem is:

clear-cut.

The CEO of a large corporation is considering the benefits her firm will offer employees. If she offers employees psychotherapy for psychological problems, chances are good that:

medical costs will be reduced.

A research team combines the results of nearly two dozen studies examining the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy in treating self-injurious behavior among clients with borderline personality disorder. The research team is conducting a:

meta-analysis.