PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Psychotherapy Research, External Validity, Internal Validity
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Advantages friend: cost, less stigma, convenience, no appointment needed. Intimate knowledge: already know a lot of information about you. Training in the right questions to as. Silence (allowing for: understanding serious problems. Training in a lot of areas like depression and anxiety and helpful strategies: resources, connected to and can recommend, obligated by law to keep confidentiality, confidentiality, objectivity, separation from personal life. Evaluating psychotherapy research: therapy as researched vs. therapy as practised, efficacy. Interested in the extent to which any benefit can be attributed to the therapy. Main focus is to be able to say that any benefit participants report is due to the therapy itself. These are the kind of studies that have a very strict manual. To participate, clients must meet rigid criteria. Therapist are following these manuals to a t. Sessions are audio recorded to make sure the therapist did what they were supposed to be doing: effectiveness.
