Andrea begins therapy and expects that the therapy will help her. This expectancy
a. is necessary to produce positive change.
b. may be enough by itself to produce positive change.
c. is helpful in psychodynamic therapy, but irrelevant to cognitive and behavioral interventions.
d. is irrelevant to the change process.
Question 2
Which of the following is a challenge of conducting randomized clinical trials of the effectiveness of therapy?
a. The client will never find out whether or not he or she was treated.
b. Most clients will never improve on their own without treatment.
c. There is little variation between different types of therapy.
d. Even therapists who use the same techniques will differ in their delivery.