Author Question: When applied to the treatment of bulimia, the text authors report on three meta-analytic studies ... (Read 47 times)

Yi-Chen · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

When applied to the treatment of bulimia, the text authors report on three meta-analytic studies that have revealed that cognitive-behavioral therapy:

a. is more effective than behavior or medication therapy.
b. is less effective than behavior therapy, but more effective than medication therapy.
c. reduces purging, but has a much smaller impact on binge frequency.
d. is equivalent to behavior therapy and raises the question as to what is really different between cognitive-behavioral and behavioral therapy approaches.

Question 2

The most recent meta-analytic studies of various treatments for panic disorder with and without agoraphobia, in general, concluded that:

a. medication treatments were less effective than cognitive-behavioral and exposure therapies.
b. cognitive-behavioral therapy was inferior to medication treatments and exposure therapies.
c. combined medication and exposure therapy treatments were more effective than cognitive behavior therapy or medication treatment alone.
d. medication, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and combined medication-exposure therapy treatments were not different from each other and all were superior to control conditions.