1. Psychotherapy and Prevention Strategies: Effective or Nah?

2. Is psychotherapy effective
Skeptics
People often enter therapy in crisis
Clients may need to believe the therapy was worth the effort
Clients generally speak kindly of their therapists
People are prone to selective and biased recall and make judgements based on our beliefs
“control group”…unintentionally misleading

3. Outcome research Similar research has been done since the 1800’s
Bleeding and typhoid patients
Hans Eysenck- studies show that two thirds of those receiving psychotherapy for nonpsychotic disorders improved markedly
Also reported that roughly two thirds with those without treatment recovered noticeably (time is a great healer)
Meta-analysis- procedure for combining the results of many different research studies
The average therapy client ends up better than 80% of the untreated people on the waiting list

4. Other results
Those with treatment are more likely to improve more quickly and with less risk of relapse
It is cost effective

5. What is most successful?
There is little connection between experience, training, supervision, and licensing and their clients outcome
Some therapy is better for certain things
Behavioral conditioning- specific behavior problems
Psychodynamic- depression, anxiety
Cognitive/cognitive behavioral therapy is effective with PTSD and depression
More successful with clear-cut problems

6. Evidence-based practice- clinical based decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
really/

7. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
People imagine traumatic scenes with eye movement is triggered, enabling them to unlock and reprocess previously frozen memories
84-100% (YES)
Three 90 minutes sessions

8. Light Exposure Therapy
Ever felt sluggish in the winter?
Morning bright light dims the depression symptoms for many suffering in a seasonal pattern

9. Elements Share by All Forms of Psychotherapy
Hope for demoralized people
A new perspective
Empathetic, trusting, and caring relationship
Therapeutic alliance= bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client’s problem

10. Culture, Gender, and Values
Individualistic cultures vs collectivist
Men vs women
religion

11. Preventing Disorders Resilience
Support programs that help alleviate the situations that create illness