PSY 3617 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Hans Eysenck, Meta-Analysis
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Psychotherapy: techniques and approaches used by clinical psychologists and other mental health professionals to alleviate psychological symptoms or improve some aspect of emotional, cognitive, or behavioral functioning. Tripartite model: three parties who have a stake in how well therapy works and who may have different opinions about what constitutes a successful therapy outcome. The client-opinions can be extremely valuable but also biased, overly eager to see positive results (especially with invested time and money), some negatively influenced by the factors that brought them to therapy. Therapist- more experienced, but only witness a fraction of the client"s lives, may feel negative evaluations reflect poorly on themselves. Efficacy vs. effectiveness of psychotherapy: efficacy: the extent to which psychotherapy works in the lab . Results of efficacy studies: psychotherapy works, the average person who receives therapy is better off at the end of it than 805 of the persons who do not , consistent finding across 1000s of studies and 100s of meta-analysis.
