Does psychotherapy work? Describe Hans Eysenck's challenge and the response to his challenge generated through meta-analysis
What will be an ideal response?
* Eysenck claimed that roughly two-thirds of patients will recover whether they are treated or not across different types of therapies.
* Subsequent studies have found his estimate to be inflated.
* Meta-analysis is used to compare a large number of studies.
* Meta-analysis of treatment outcomes revealed treated individuals were better off than those who did not receive treatment.
* These meta-analyses have revealed that treatments are generally effective but to different degrees among different people.
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