Exam 17: Outcomes And Issues In Psychological Intervention

What has been found to be the most important factor in predicting therapy outcome with client-centred therapy?

Therapy delivered via the internet tends to have little efficacy.

Systematic desensitization relies on which theoretical position?

REBT began as a form of marital therapy.

Describe some differences between how therapy research is conducted versus the typical practice of therapy.

Canadians are more likely to receive empirically supported pharmacological therapies than empirically supported psychological therapies for the treatment of mental health issues.

Which of the following individuals has been credited with originating the field of psychotherapy research?

Motivational interviewing was initially designed for use in:

Couples who avoid conflict are:

In order to be consistent with evidence-based clinical practice, treatment manuals should be __________ based.

Research (Joyce et al., 2010) in individual differences in _____ showed that clients with a(n) _____ have less favourable treatment outcomes.

Compare and contrast psychodynamic therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy.

What percentage of surveyed practitioners (Ogrodniczuk et al., 2010) believe that randomized control trials were overemphasized?

A recent meta-analysis evaluating short-term psychodynamic therapy (Driessen et al., 2010) revealed:

Describe the three different approaches to eclecticism (technical eclecticism, common factorism, theoretical integration). As part of this discussion, consider limitations to the integrative movement in psychotherapy.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using empirically supported therapies exclusively?

Psychoanalysis primarily focuses upon:

Most therapists practice primarily from one orientation, but also draw on theories or techniques from others.

Greenberg et al.'s (1994) meta-analytic review of the effectiveness of client-centred therapy suggests that:

Adding a cognitive component for behavioural couples therapy: