PSYC36H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Focusing, Behavior Modification, Trait Theory
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The average treated patient is better off than approximately 80% of those that were not treated (smith & Glass, 1977: there is variance from person-to-person. By talking about your problems, it helps to identify the problem, release bottled up emotions, get advice and support from an unbiased point of view while instilling hope. Treatment effect (tx effect) + non-specific effect + error = therapy outcome: treatment effect: involves any element specific to that is unique to that therapy. Time: natural improvement waiting time from appointment made to first session (not necessarily an error) Waiting room, summer (the flight to mental health out of school) Measurement errors: method (questionnaire/inventory/interview) may not be perfectly reliable to measure certain score (e. g. depression) Can also have the opposite outcome and improve a person"s score. Error can increase it where tx effect and non-specific effects decrease it. Everyone has one and all must have prizes there are no winners .
