Author Question: Which of the following statements about ESTs is true? a. ESTs provide the only accepted ... (Read 135 times)

geodog55 · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

Which of the following statements about ESTs is true?

a. ESTs provide the only accepted guidelines for matching diagnoses and treatments of mental disorders.
b. The studies by which they are identified are scientific and, therefore, beyond question.
c. The existence of ESTs sometimes influences treatment through third party payers such as insurance companies because a therapist must use the designated EST for a diagnosis in order to be paid.
d. Common factors practitioners and theorists agree with the EST findings and approach.
e. Professional psychology and counseling journals use ESTs as their standard against which submitted articles are rated for possible publication.

Question 2

Which of the following would a common factors advocate say?

a. Counseling strategies predict therapeutic outcome better than common factors.
b. Research testing distinctions in outcome among theoretical approaches has been flawed.
c. Research has proved that practitioners should adjust their theoretical approach according to the clients diagnosis.
d. Psychology is not an exact science like medicine, so it is not possible to tailor talk treatments to diagnoses.
e. Scientific studies are too focused, singling out participants who have only one tidy diagnosis. Results, therefore, are suspect.