PSYCH 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Facilitated Communication, Primal Therapy, Panic Disorder
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Statistical procedure for combining results from many different studies. Can compare many treatment trials in a standardized way. Which eysenck was not able to do well. Gets an overall statistical summary of studies. The average client who receives therapy is better off than 80% of untreated people. As determined by an early meta-analysis (smith & glass, 1977) Since this time, over 3,000 scientific studies and 300 meta-analyses have underscored the positive effects of therapy. Whether treatments can work under highly controlled experimental conditions and procedures (ex: in the lab) Whether therapy works in the real world, uncontrolled (ex: in the clinic/private practice) In addition to being efficacious, therapy is also effective. In 1995, the american psychological association provided criteria for a therapy to be considered an empirically-supported treatment (est) An est is a treatment that well-done, replicated research has shown to be efficacious. Apa"s list of ests states which therapies are well-established or probably efficacious treatments for certain disorders.
