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

Related Mcqs:

1. 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.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 3 & 4
   D. 2 & 4

2. 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

3. According to research on psychotherapy’s effectiveness, at what point into psychotherapy can 50 percent of clients begin to experience beneficial effects?

   A. 6 to 8 sessions
   B. 10 to 15 sessions
   C. 1 to 2 sessions
   D. 25 to 30 sessions

4. What are possible reasons given to explain why 5-10% of patients deteriorate after ending psychotherapy?

   A. Poor therapist – client relationship
   B. Therapist incompetence
   C. Therapy disrupts stable pattern of functioning
   D. Therapy does not offer clients alternative cooping mechanisms
   E. All of the above

5. Until the late eighteenth century, people suffering from a psychological disorders were thought to be possessed by demons or evil spirits. Treatment was designed to alter the body in order to let out the spirits or make it an inhospitable habitat for them,and among the earliest of these was a technique in which part of the skull bone was removed to allow evil spirits out.But what was this technique called?

   A. Ice pick lobotomy
   B. Trepanning
   C. Prefrontal lobotomy
   D. Bloodletting

6. Flooding, reciprocal inhibition and covert sensitization are examples of techniques used in which type of psychotherapy?

   A. Cognitive therapy
   B. Behavioral therapy
   C. Humanistic therapy
   D. Family therapy
   E. b and c

7. Demonstrating unconditional positive regard toward patients is a critical component for which type of therapy?

   A. Family therapy
   B. Rational-emotive therapy
   C. Client-centered therapy
   D. Gestalt therapy

8. Free association interpretation and analysis of transference are treatment techniques in which model of psychotherapy?

   A. Humanistic
   B. Psychoanalytic
   C. Cognitive
   D. Behavioral

9. In the placebo effect:

   A. The patient shows an improvement after being treated with a relevant medicine.
   B. The patient’s condition deteriorates despite being treated with a relevant medicine.
   C. The patient shows an improvement after being treated with an inert substance.
   D. The patient’s condition deteriorates after being treated with an inert substance.

10. What are the two major approaches to treatment of psychological disorders?
    1: Biological.
    2: Medical.
    3: Chemical.
    4: Psychological

    A. 1 & 2
    B. 2 & 3
    C. 2 & 4
    D. 1 & 4