Which of the following was a key finding on the efficacy of child psychotherapies?
a. The dodo verdict holds—all treatments seem to be equally effective overall.
b. Behavioral therapies tend to yield greater effect sizes.
c. Treatment tended to work better for children than adolescents because children were less set in their ways and less resistant to treatment.
d. Therapy was more effective for externalizing (e.g., disruptive behavior problems) than for internalizing (e.g., anxiety and depression) disorders.
b. Behavioral therapies tend to yield greater effect sizes.
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A counselor makes the inferential error of confirmatory bias when he
a. is exposed to a powerful experience that keeps a certain point of view in his mind and then he interprets clients’ problems from that point of view, whether it is appropriate or not. b. is overly influenced by his own experiences when making assumptions about clients c. tends to notice things that support his hypotheses and ignore things that disprove his hypotheses. d. gets hung up on one hypothesis about the root of a client’s problem, resulting in missing important information offered by the client. e. assumes occurrences are causally associated when they happened at the same time simply by chance.
Which of the following individuals is statistically least likely to experience PTSD?
a. a child from a war-torn country b. a child who has experienced years of physical abuse c. a child who witnessed her mother beat her father at least weekly for years d. a child who was caught in a building fire
Feedback to the client about progress
A. Should be done in writing B. Decreases dropping out C. Should not be given to the client D. Should be carefully worded so as not to retard future progress
The tendency to seek __________ evidence is one of the most common mistakes in test interpretation
a. confrontive b. confirmatory c. consequent d. concurrent