Author Question: When compared to medication treatment for depression, psychotherapy for depression has been found ... (Read 196 times)

go.lag · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

When compared to medication treatment for depression, psychotherapy for depression has been found to:

a. be inferior to medications for all but the most mild forms of depression.
b. facilitate faster improvement over the short-term, but its effectiveness is similar to medications overthe long term.
c. be as effective or more effective, especially when studied over the long-term.
d. be superior in most studies, even when researcher allegiance factors are considered.

Question 2

The text authors punctuate the closing of their book with the exclamation that Psychotherapy works What they mean is that:

a. psychotherapy is effective for some people with particular kinds of problems.
b. psychotherapy is effective in the vast majority of cases, but not as effective as biomedical interventions.
c. psychotherapy yields large effect sizes (i.e., .80) that rival or exceed those in biomedicine.
d. cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal psychotherapies are effective while other therapies are less so.