PSY2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Meta-Analysis, Therapeutic Relationship, Systematic Desensitization
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Note: our coverage of this chapter will be limited to: Explain the basic assumption of behavior therapy, and describe the techniques used in exposure therapies and aversive conditioning. Identify the key assumption and treatment focus of cognitive therapists. Getting people to think in fresh, more constructive ways. Involves eliminating catastrophizing beliefs about : oneself, one"s situations, one"s future. Explain how cognitive-behavior therapy integrates aspects of both cognitive and behavior therapies. Cbt is one the best treatments for treating depression. Encourages clients to: purge irrational, negative thinking, behave in mood-congruent ways. Explain why clients and clinicians tend to overestimate the effectiveness of psychotherapy. Regression toward the mean they were going to get better anyway. Define meta-analysis, and note the overall finding concerning the effectiveness of psychotherapies (versus the outcome for people receiving no treatment). Meta-analysis a method for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.
