Psychology 2320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reciprocal Inhibition, Systematic Desensitization, Panic Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2320A/B
• Professor: Elizabeth Hayden

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Psych 2320b (lec 2 : methods in psychopathology research ) Psychotherapy outcome research: early findings : meta-analysis: combines results from many studies to get an overall estimate of effect, smith, glass, & miller (1980) meta-analysis of psychotherapy with adults. I. e. , average psychotherapy patient was better off post-treatment than over 80% of persons who went untreated. Major classes of psychotherapy were equivalent in terms of efficacy (e. g. , bt = cbt = Dodo bird: hotly contested (especially by behavior therapists) Garbage in, garbage out (inclusion of poorly designed studies: still actively debated, majority opinion: For some disorders few differences in efficacy across several approaches (e. g. , major depression) But what about the children?: weisz et al. (1987) meta-analysis of psychotherapy with children, overall effect size = . 79. I. e. , average psychotherapy patient is better off post-treatment than 79% of children who go untreated. Bt effect size = . 88; non-bt effect size = . 44.