PSYC 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Franz Mesmer, Francine Shapiro, Seasonal Affective Disorder
6 Oct 2020
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Meta-analysis a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies. First one showed that average therapy client ends up better than 80% of untreated individuals on waiting lists. Those who go to therapy are more likely to improve more quickly and with less risk of relapse. Behavioural conditioning therapies favourable results in specific behaviour problems. Bed-wetting, phobias, compulsions, marital problems, and sexual dysfunctions. Cognitive and cognitive-behavioural therapy coping with anxiety, ptsd, and depression. Benefit in short term but often relapse later. Psychological medical treatments can be ineffective and harmful. Evidence-based practice clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences. No evidence for or against most of them. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy developed by francine shapiro when walking in a park and observing that anxious thoughts vanished as her eyes spontaneously darted about.
