Basil is suffering from an eating disorder. His psychologist applies a treatment he knows was successful with other clients in the past. After weeks of treatment, Basil is still suffering from the disorder and his condition has not improved, in fact, it has worsened. Explain how the patient uniformity myth could apply to Basil's lack of success with this therapy.
What will be an ideal response?
The patient uniformity myth leads to making inaccurate generalizations about disorders and their treatments. While research may indicate a treatment was effective on a group of patients, the same treatment may not have been successful on some patients within the group. Even though "on the average" people improved in the research group, not every member of the group improved and others may have worsened. In the case of Basil, while the treatment applied by his therapist was effective on others it was not a good fit for Basil and other treatments are needed for Basil's condition to improve.
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