PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 28: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Apa established a task force to make recommendations and provide guidelines on how best to incorporate scientific research evidence into psychological practice. A major recommendation of the task force was that clinical psychologists should use empirically supported treatments (ests) specific treatments that have been shown to be efficacious (effective) in controlled clinical trials . Often ests are behavioral or cognitive behavioral treatments, primarily because the behavioral approach emphasizes basing treatments on well-established principles, measuring the outcomes of treatments in objectively defined behaviors, and altering treatments that are not producing satisfactory results. An apa website lists a number of psychological disorders, treatments that have been applied to those disorders, and the level of published research support for those treatments. An intense, irrational, incapacitating fear of a stimulus class is called a specific phobia. Animal type (e. g. , fear of dogs, birds, spiders), Natural environment type (e. g. , fear of heights, storms), Blood injury injection type (e. g. , fear of seeing blood, having an operation),
