Author Question: All the methods of therapy for psychological problems have general goals and basic features in ... (Read 78 times)

urbanoutfitters · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

All the methods of therapy for psychological problems have general goals and basic features in common. List and describe two of these general goals and three of these basic features.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Is psychotherapy effective? Discuss the research that evaluates different methods of psychotherapy and why this question has been difficult to answer.

What will be an ideal response?

dantucker · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
The goals of psychotherapy are to provide psychological support, to eliminate troublesome behaviors, to develop new and better behaviors, and to promote insight or self-exploration. The features of psychotherapy include a client who is suffering and seeks relief, a trained person (therapist) who attempts to provide help to the client, a theory or rationale used to explain the client's problems, a set of procedures for dealing with the client's problems, and a special relationship between the client and therapist.

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
There is considerable disagreement about the effectiveness of psychotherapy. The question is particularly difficult to answer because of the large variety of clients, disorders, therapies, and therapists. Many studies have produced results that can yield conflicting interpretations. The consensus is that there is evidence that some therapies do seem to work for some clients with some disorders when administered by some types of therapists, but there is no clear-cut way to determine the best approach for a given person with particular symptoms. The results of meta-analyses of effectiveness studies indicate that even when statistically significant differences in therapeutic effectiveness are found, they may not be associated with clinical effectiveness (i.e., the client improves noticeably and feels better).