PSYC 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Hans Eysenck, Cognitive Therapy

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3330
• Professor: jaspreetrai

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Hans eysenck (1952) did not believe psychotherapy worked and made a statement that there was no proof that it did. This made psychologists do a lot of research to prove that it did. Tripartite model (who should researchers ask about outcome?) Society any outside to the therapy process who has an interest in how therapy progresses including the ge(cid:374)eral pu(cid:271)li(cid:272), legal syste(cid:373), (cid:272)lie(cid:374)t"s fa(cid:373)ily or frie(cid:374)ds, (cid:272)lie(cid:374)t"s e(cid:373)ployers, (cid:373)a(cid:374)aged (cid:272)are (cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:374)ies that pay the therapy bill. Not as many studies as there are for efficacy studies, but similar results have been found, basically saying that psychotherapy is effective. Study by consumer reports magazine is an example of a large scale effectiveness study. Found that: therapy had positive effects the lasted over time. Efficacy research increasingly moving towards therapy x works for disorder y. What needs treatment are not superficial symptoms of a particular disorder. Practitioners reluctant to use treatments supports by efficacy studies.