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Title: Evidence-based therapies should be based on ____.
Post by: finnc on Mar 9, 2018
Evidence-based therapies should be based on ____.
 
  a. client culture, values, and beliefs
  b. managed care provisions
 c. meta-analysis
 d. epidemiological studies

Question 2

A researcher conducting a meta-analysis is accused of providing only one side of a story even though he accurately reported the information from the studies he used. How would this be possible?
 
  a. The researcher did not publish the study for peer review.
 b. The researcher provided information from too many studies.
 c. The researcher looked at both published and unpublished articles.
 d. The researcher only chose articles that contained the same information.

Question 3

A researcher looks at many different research studies on a specific topic and analyzes the combined results of these different studies. What is the researcher engaging in?
 
  a. correlational research
  b. case study
 c. quasi-experiment
 d. meta-analysis

Question 4

In addition to describing the distribution of disorders in populations, epidemiological research is also important for____.
 
  a. analyzing the possible causal factors that contribute to disorders
  b. describing treatment effectiveness for disorders
 c. protecting the rights of research participants
 d. encouraging the development of new treatments for disorders

Question 5

A school psychologist was concerned with the number of children being diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). If she were interested in learning how many new cases of ADHD had been diagnosed within the last two years, she will look at ____.
 
  a. concordance rates
  b. incidence rates
 c. sampling rates
 d. prevalence rates


Title: Evidence-based therapies should be based on ____.
Post by: sjordclass on Mar 9, 2018
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Title: Evidence-based therapies should be based on ____.
Post by: finnc on Mar 9, 2018
I know you spent a lot of time finding this because I swear it wasn't in my textbook


Title: Evidence-based therapies should be based on ____.
Post by: sjordclass on Mar 9, 2018
You're partially right, it's found midway in the chapter, but not at all easy to find. Good luck with the rest