Does psychotherapy work? Describe Hans Eysenck's challenge and the response to his challenge generated through meta-analysis
What will be an ideal response?
* Eysenck claimed that roughly two-thirds of patients will recover whether they are treated or not across different types of therapies.
* Subsequent studies have found his estimate to be inflated.
* Meta-analysis is used to compare a large number of studies.
* Meta-analysis of treatment outcomes revealed treated individuals were better off than those who did not receive treatment.
* These meta-analyses have revealed that treatments are generally effective but to different degrees among different people.
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a) client-centered therapy b) rational-emotive therapy c) systematic desensitization d) cognitive consistency therapy
The Feminist Family Therapist recognizes that
a) no intervention is gender free. b) all interventions must be gender free. c) every intervention will have a different and special meaning for each sex. d) both a and c