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| 6attention only control group |
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| a control group whose members meet regularly with a clinician but receive no "active" treatment. |
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| a set of features that characterize many therapy orientations and that may be the source of positive changes effected by psychological treatment. |
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| in psychotherapy research, the group that does not receive the treatment under investigation. |
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| the changeability of a condition or behavior. |
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| the size of the treatment effect (determined statistically). |
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| studies that emphasize external validity and the representativeness of the treatment that is administered. A treatment is considered effective to the extent that clients report clinically significant benefit from the treatment. |
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| studies that place a premium on internal validity by controlling the types of clients in the study, by standardizing the treatments, and by randomly assigning patients to treatments or no-treatment groups. A treatment is considered efficacious to the extent that the average person receiving the treatment is clinical trials is demonstrated to be significantly less dysfunctional than the average person not receiving any treatment. |
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| empirically supported treatments (ESTs) |
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| Treatments for various psychological conditions that have been shown through careful empirical study to be either "well established" or "probably efficacious." A list of ESTs is updated and published periodically by the APA's Division of Clinical Psychology. |
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| evidence-based treatments (EBTs) |
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| those interventions or techniques that have produced significant change in clients and patients in controlled trials. |
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| evidence-based practice (EBP) |
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| Treatments that informed by a number of sources including scientific evidence about the intervention, clinical expertise, and patient needs and preferences. |
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| the therapist's demonstration of competence. |
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| in the context of psychotherapy, the achievement of understanding the nature and origins of one's problems. |
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| In the context of psychotherapy, the therapist's conceptualization of the meaning behind the patient's experiences or behaviors. |
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| psychotherapeutic treatment that is presented and described in a standardized, manual format. |
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| the acquisition of a high level of knowledge or skill. One goal of psychotherapy may be for the patient to develop competence/mastery in a particular area. |
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| a method of research in which one compiles all studies relevant to a topic or question and combines the results statistically. |
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| factors that are not specific to any particular therapy orientation yet contribute to a positive treatment outcome. |
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| in psychotherapy research, indicators of patient functioning following treatment, used to gauge the treatment effectiveness. |
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| individuals without advanced education in psychology who have been trained to assist professional mental health workers. |
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| how well a patient is getting along across a number of domains. |
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| research that investigates the specific events that occur in the course of the interaction between therapist and patient. some therapy processes have been shown to relate to treatment outcome. |
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| psychological intervention |
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| a method of inducing changes in a person's behavior, thoughts, or feelings. |
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| a series of stages that represent a client's readiness for change in psychotherapy. Includes: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination |
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| the relationship therapist and patient. the forging of a strong therapeutic alliance is believed to be of primary importance for therapeutic change. |
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| in psychotherapy research, the group that receives the treatment under investigation. |
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| a control group whose members receive treatment only after the study is completed. |
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