PSYCHOTHERAPY FINAL EXAM
(PSYC36) QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS)
☑☑: Common Factors in Therapeutic Change
The average treated patient is better off than 80% of those that were
not treated
☑☑: Dodo Bird Verdict
Tx effect + Non-specific effect + Error = Outcome/Change
☑☑: Predicting Outcome/Change (FORMULA)
Time, Environment, Measurement errors
☑☑: Error
Non-specific factors, definition
Factors shared by all treatment approaches
Not model-specific
Efficacious above specific treatment effects
☑☑: Common Factors
Shared by all treatments, contribute to outcome/change
,☑☑: Summary
Emotionally charged, confiding relations with a helping person
Healing setting
The patient's felt sense of connection with the therapist
1. Agree on goals
2. Agree on tasks
3. Developing a bond
☑☑: Therapeutic Alliance (Components and definition)
1. Rationale for symptoms
2. Prescription for resolving symptoms
An explanation of where the symptoms came from and how they
are being maintained
An idea of how changing something will result in the amelioration
of symptoms
☑☑: Symptom Rationale (Components and definition)
1. Ritual or procedure that requires active participation by patient
and therapist and is believed by both to restore patient's health
Directly related to the symptom rationale
Involves the description of tools of the therapy that can accomplish
the goals of the client
☑☑: Treatment Rationale (Components and definition)
1. Must be an agreement between the client expectations/goals
and the symptom/treatment rationale.
, 2. At this stage of treatment the therapist must be a salesperson
3. Capitalize on motivation and expectancy effects (placebo
effect)
☑☑: Symptom and Treatment Rationale
Master therapists (level of experience)
Diagnoses (not predictive of outcome, some patients want one)
Length (75% improve within 6 MONTHS)
☑☑: NOT Non-Specific Effects
Framework for understanding processes underlying behavioural
change
☑☑: Motivational Interviewing (MI): Stages of Change
Not considering change
☑☑: Precontemplative
Ambivalent about change
☑☑: Contemplative
Plan and commit to change
☑☑: Preparation
Change has occurred recently
☑☑: Action
(PSYC36) QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS)
☑☑: Common Factors in Therapeutic Change
The average treated patient is better off than 80% of those that were
not treated
☑☑: Dodo Bird Verdict
Tx effect + Non-specific effect + Error = Outcome/Change
☑☑: Predicting Outcome/Change (FORMULA)
Time, Environment, Measurement errors
☑☑: Error
Non-specific factors, definition
Factors shared by all treatment approaches
Not model-specific
Efficacious above specific treatment effects
☑☑: Common Factors
Shared by all treatments, contribute to outcome/change
,☑☑: Summary
Emotionally charged, confiding relations with a helping person
Healing setting
The patient's felt sense of connection with the therapist
1. Agree on goals
2. Agree on tasks
3. Developing a bond
☑☑: Therapeutic Alliance (Components and definition)
1. Rationale for symptoms
2. Prescription for resolving symptoms
An explanation of where the symptoms came from and how they
are being maintained
An idea of how changing something will result in the amelioration
of symptoms
☑☑: Symptom Rationale (Components and definition)
1. Ritual or procedure that requires active participation by patient
and therapist and is believed by both to restore patient's health
Directly related to the symptom rationale
Involves the description of tools of the therapy that can accomplish
the goals of the client
☑☑: Treatment Rationale (Components and definition)
1. Must be an agreement between the client expectations/goals
and the symptom/treatment rationale.
, 2. At this stage of treatment the therapist must be a salesperson
3. Capitalize on motivation and expectancy effects (placebo
effect)
☑☑: Symptom and Treatment Rationale
Master therapists (level of experience)
Diagnoses (not predictive of outcome, some patients want one)
Length (75% improve within 6 MONTHS)
☑☑: NOT Non-Specific Effects
Framework for understanding processes underlying behavioural
change
☑☑: Motivational Interviewing (MI): Stages of Change
Not considering change
☑☑: Precontemplative
Ambivalent about change
☑☑: Contemplative
Plan and commit to change
☑☑: Preparation
Change has occurred recently
☑☑: Action
