Wampold's Contextual Model Of Psychotherapy

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Bruce E. Wampold is the Patricia L. Wolleat Professor of Counselling Psychology and the clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for developing the contextual model of psychotherapy. What do you know about it?

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1.

Psychotherapy has be found to be:
- A.
  
  Remarkably effective
- B.
  
  Somewhat effective
- C.
  
  Hardly effective
- D.
  
  None of he above
2.

Despite the demonstrable effectiveness, mechanisms of change are:
- A.
  
  Well understood
- B.
  
  Not well understood
- C.
  
  Somewhat understood
- D.
  
  None of the above
3.

Wampold's theory
- A.
  
  Presents a radically different view, but very scientific, logical, thorough, and systematic
- B.
  
  Presents a somewhat different view, that is not very scientific, illogical, and unorganized
- C.
  
  Presents a different view, that is somewhat scientific, logical, thorough, and systematic
- D.
  
  None of the above
4.

Wampold contends that most Tx offered over the centuries were:
- A.
  
  Probably as effective as medication
- B.
  
  Surely more effective than placebos
- C.
  
  Probably no more effective than placebos
- D.
  
  Both A and C
5.

"Remoralization" refers to:
- A.
  
  Healers must be trusted and credible, accepted by clients, and problems viewed as resolvable
- B.
  
  Healers should be trusted and credible, accepted by clients, and problems could be viewed as resolvable
- C.
  
  Healers need not be trusted but instead credible, accepted by clients, and problems could be viewed as resolvable
- D.
  
  None of the above
6.

Jerome Frank proposed that psychotherapy is:
- A.
  
  Not a cultural healing practice but a medical one
- B.
  
  Is a cultural healing practice not really a medical one
- C.
  
  Neither cultural or medical
- D.
  
  None of the above
7.

Psychotherapy is not a healing practice that can be used with nonhumans, the way modern medicine can as in veterinary medicine
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
8.

From a cultural, humanistic context, change is:
- A.
  
  Explained to the client by the therapist/healer
- B.
  
  Explained to the therapist by the client
- C.
  
  Not explained at all
- D.
  
  Both A and B
9.

Found psychotherapy empirically to be:
- A.
  
  Very effective; .80
- B.
  
  Not effective; .20
- C.
  
  Somewhat effective; .60
- D.
  
  None of the above
10.

Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is defined in the Contextual Model as:
- A.
  
  The number who need to receive the Tx to achieve a success relative to treated patients
- B.
  
  The number who need to receive the Tx to achieve a success relative to untreated patients
- C.
  
  The number of individuals needed to Tx to reach effectiveness of a particular Tx
- D.
  
  None of the above
11.

ES of .80 is equivalent to NNT of (and is the NNT of psychotherapy):
- A.
  
  4
- B.
  
  10
- C.
  
  7
- D.
  
  3
12.

The effectiveness of psychotherapy compared to almost all interventions in cardiology are:
- A.
  
  More effective
- B.
  
  Less effective
- C.
  
  Equally effective
- D.
  
  None of the above
13.

Therapy compared to psychopharmacological Txs and the "dodo bird conjecture (for any 1 diagnosis decades of research has not found 1 Tx superior to another)" for mental disorders are:
- A.
  
  As effective and more enduring
- B.
  
  Less effective and less enduring
- C.
  
  More effective and more enduring
- D.
  
  Equally effective and equally enduring
14.

Therapist qualities such as ability to form a working alliance and to be trustworthy and credible are found to be
- A.
  
  Important to the effectiveness of psychotherapy, outcomes at least 1 order of magnitude (10xs) greater than differences in Txs
- B.
  
  Not important to the effectiveness of psychotherapy, outcomes do not effect the magnitude of differences in Txs
- C.
  
  Somewhat important
15.

Placebo response is uniquely human in that:
- A.
  
  Opiods are really released when expectation is created; subject develops an expectation created by someone with expertise
- B.
  
  Opiods are not really released; subjects simply develop and expectation created by someone with expertise
- C.
  
  Opiods are irrelevant
- D.
  
  Both B and C