PSYC 3930 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psychopathology, Reinforcement, Meta-Analysis
11 Nov 2015
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Children may not know or understand why they are there or what the purpose is. Child may not want to be in therapy at all. Over 12 and you can seek out help without parental approval. Parental motivation in therapy is necessary to the treatment. Unless there is potential for harm to the child or others. Problems when the parent and child are there and they have differing views. Establishing rapport helpful to do play therapy for children to open up. Addressing the fact that they don"t want to be there and just trying to get them to agree to make good use of the time. Levitt"s initial conclusions there was no evidence for psychotherapy on kids. Publication bias: they only publish studies with favorable results. Ethnic invariance no difference in tx when applied to other ethnicities. Ethnic disparities differences in effectiveness of tx when applied to other ethnicities.
