PSYCH 438 University of Wisconsin Green Bay Article Presentation Paper

Q1: With your powerpoint being about therapist effectiveness, what do you think makes an effective therapist? Are therapists mostly “one size fits all” or is having variation a good thing? Do you believe the client should decide when they no longer need therapy, or should that be the therapists decision?

Q2: From what I know so far, it seems that psychodynamic is more unstructured than the more evidenced-based modalities like CBT. Is the fact that psychodynamic therapy is less structured a key part in why therapist effectiveness has a greater impact on outcomes?

Someone else has already asked this, but I was also curious as to how they measured effectiveness. What can a therapist do to improve their effectiveness?

Q3: When it comes to the involvement and effectiveness of a therapist, I feel like it can be defined in various ways. Within the Psychodynamic field, what types practices of therapy are considered effective? Is it the unstructured nature, the adaptability of practice due to the structure, or is it maybe another aspect of the theory?

Q4: Do you know what the average length of treatment was in these studies? I know that the book describes psychodynamic therapy as usually being long-term and often continues for many years. This week’s chapters mention how termination can bring up feelings of separation and loss in clients. Do you think this may influence how effective a client felt their therapy experience was?

Q5: What makes a therapist approaches effective or not? What was the age range of the participants in the study, and how long did the study last?

In the first slide you had mentioned how study was meant to to study the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy at specific points in time. What time frames were they studying? How long was the average recovery process for the participants?

Lastly, I do also agree that the study should be done with a larger sample but I also wonder what the results would be for different age groups within this study.

Q6: In your powerpoint you mentioned that low effectiveness therapists create lower outcome for client results, do you think that it is all on a therapists effectiveness or on how the client perceives what the therapist is communicating? Do you feel that there are really low effectiveness therapists or just clients seeing the wrong type of therapist?

Q7: I’d like to know more about the general methods involved in the study. How was the effectiveness of each therapist determined? As we’ve learned, experience, interaction, closeness, and many other factors play into the effectiveness of psychotherapy. What criteria are most important, and how do you measure it?

Is there a similar result when talking about other therapies? I’d imagine that a therapist would have influence even in more structured forms of therapy. Are there similar studies for other therapies, or research expanding on this study in general?