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Psychotherapy and Research Effectiveness of Psychotherapy -M. L.

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• Psychotherapy as a knowledge is transferred from generation to generation and is heavily based on experiences from process.

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Click to edit Master Psychotherapy and Research title style • History • Too vague to be grasped exactly, via evidence-focused approaches • It produces not (easy) verified claims • Speaks different languages. • From different language, it talks about different subjects (conflicts, dreams, psychodynamic forces etc.)

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Click to edit Master Psychotherapy and Research title style • Launched by Hans Eysenck • He suggested that, in the absence of treatment, psychotherapy was no more effective than the passage of time. • Result: • 72% of patients not treated psychotherapeutically, get significantly better after 2 years • Moreover, the review techniques themselves, such as the narrative summary or the “boxscore” approach (that is, tallying studies showing more or less improvement for therapy, relative to control patients), were subject to bias and distortion.

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Click to edit Master Psychotherapy and Research title style • After Skeptical Eysenck • Researchers make research on the impact or effect of psychotherapy. • Research in Psychotherapy of Meltzoff, J and Kornreich M. published in 1970 • Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior by A. E. Bergin and S. L. Garfield, in 1971 • In 1976, Differential Psychotherapy: Indication and Specific Effect of Behavior Therapy and Client- Centered psychotherapy: An investigation with phobic patients.

• As a result, fear was significantly reduced by using of both therapeutic approaches. Therefore, psychotherapy is significantly better, than to do nothing.

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Click to edit Master title style • Meta-analysis- was introduced in 1970s • Relies on mathematical integration of results from multiple studies into a common metric

• Meta-analysis, heralded as a more objective method in determining the effectiveness of psychotherapy. • Early meta-analyses evaluated the absolute effectiveness of psychotherapy, comparing the outcomes for patients receiving treatment with the outcomes for patients in untreated control groups.

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