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Preview p. 88 If you were to undergo psychotherapy, how would you gauge the effectiveness? By how you feel about your progress? How your therapist feels.

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1 Preview p. 88 If you were to undergo psychotherapy, how would you gauge the effectiveness? By how you feel about your progress? How your therapist feels about your progress? How your friends and family feel about your progress? How your behavior has changed?

2 Evaluating Psychotherapies

3 Is Psychotherapy Effective?
Clients and clinicans tend to overestimate the effectiveness of therapy Regression toward the mean Meta-analysis

4 Relative Effectiveness
Cognitive, behavior, and interpersonal therapies for depression Cognitive, behavior, and exposure therapies for anxiety (phobias, panic, and OCD) CBT for eating disorders Behavior modification for bed- wetters

5 Alternative Therapies
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Light Exposure Therapy Trepanation Autobiographies

6 Commonalities Among Psychotherapies
Hope A New Perspective An Empathic, Trusting, Caring Relationship

7 Process p.88 Can you think of a time when your positive expectations for improvement may have been self- fulfilling?


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