Which of the following criticisms of family and couples therapies are valid?
1: These treatments are not as effective as most individual treatments for problems relating to family or relationship conflict.
2: The attraction of these therapies may reflect little more than the charisma of those who developed them.
3: Bona fide treatments only produce beneficial outcomes for a minority of cases in 20 sessions or fewer.
4: These has been a relative lack of research on many of these therapies.

Related Mcqs:

1. Although it is generally recommended to begin with psychotherapy first to treat psychological disorders,for which group of patients would it be most beneficial to begin with drug treatments instead of psychotheraputic treatments?

   A. Drug abusers
   B. Suiciidal
   C. Depressed
   D. Psychotic
   E. b and d

2. As the evidence accumulates, a broad consensus has been reached regarding the characteristics of treatments that impact on offending. But which of the following is actually one of those characteristics?

   A. Indiscriminate targeting of treatment programs helps to reduce recidivism
   B. The type of treatment program is important, with stronger evidence for unstructured behavioral and multi- model approaches
   C. The most successful studies behavioral in nature, include a cognitive component
   D. The most effective programs have low treatment integrity

3. Why is the difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic treatments?

   A. Self-selection into therapy leads to biased samples
   B. Creating true control groups for comparison
   C. The number of possible treatment-disorder combinations to assess
   D. Most patients do not give consent to participate in research
   E. a,b and c

4. Which of the following therapies are mainly intended to eliminate symptoms rather than after personality?

   A. behavior and drug therapies
   B. psychoanalysis and client – centered therapy
   C. Psychoanalysis and drug therapies
   D. cognitive and psychoanalytic therapies

5. Which of the following therapies is more concerned with removing specific trouble symptoms than with providing special insights into the personality of the client?

   A. client – centered therapy
   B. behavior therapy
   C. psychoanalysis
   D. cognitive therapy

6. Which of the following is not one of the criticisms of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?

   A. Piaget may have underestimated the cognitive skills of children in some areas
   B. Piaget may have underestimate the influence of cultural factors on cognitive development
   C. The theory does not clearly address the issue of individual differences in development
   D. Evidence for the theory is based on children’s answer to

7. Behavior therapies appear to be particularly effective in the treatment of

   A. panic disorder
   B. phobias
   C. antisocial personality disorder
   D. major depression

8. Used in conjunction with medication and other therapies, ECT remains an option for the treatment of mood disorders. What dose ECT stand for?

   A. Electro – Conclusive Therapy
   B. Electric – Conclusive Therapy
   C. Electro – Conductive Therapy
   D. Electric – Conductive Therapy

9. The_____experiences of pupils that are, in effect by-products of a teaching-learning situation reflect the influence of the teacher as a person:

   A. social
   B. Emotional
   C. Personal
   D. Motivational

10. Studies show that an “authoritarian family” tends to produce an adolescent who is ___________?

    A. Dependent and obedient
    B. Self-reliant
    C. Independent but deserved
    D. Surface-complaint but rebellious underneath