PSYC 4061 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Integrative Psychotherapy, Cognitive Therapy, Nomothetic
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Therapy 3 components - 1) approach 2) therapist 3) client. There has been research to see how these variables impact the therapy. Not in text: apa. org/dicisions -- list all the different psychological conditions and all the treatments for those conditions and what we see right away is that for each psychological condition there are many different types of treatments. For each disorder we see a large number of ways for treating the disorder. Laska, gurman &wompold 2014 - meta analysis looking at different type of treatments and their effectiveness. His results are the same: the difference between the difference approach is more or less equal/the same. Whether it is psychoanalysis of behavioural therapy it seems that there isn"t much impact on the final outcome. The relationship between the client and the therapist. The degree that the client likes the therapist - that is how much they are likely to success. Approach isn"t important from a research point of view.
