Identify the two major categories of common factors that affect treatment success at the individual ...

Identify the two major categories of common factors that affect treatment success at the individual level, and give examples of each.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Describe the process of becoming an informed client, including what questions one should ask and what information should be sought.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

Describe what steps one should take if he or she is interested in becoming a mental health professional.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

A client should always be viewed , and their disorder .
 
  a. first; second
  b. second; first
  c. first; simultaneously
  d. as a person; as a disease

Question 5

Mark shares a private practice with Ian. They are both clinical psychologists. Mark notices that Ian has been scheduling one particularly attractive female client at the end of the day pretty consistently. One night Mark is working late and sees Ian and this woman holding hands on the way to the parking lot. The first thing Mark should do after observing this ethical violation is
 
  a. notify the APA ethics board.
  b. ignore it, as it is not his business or his violation.
  c. talk to Mark and ask him to stop seeing the woman socially.
  d. call into a radio show and announce that Mark is not a trustworthy colleague.

Question 6

Unless a study is justified from a scientific perspective, and if participants know about important and harmful aspects of the study that might influence their decision to participate, psychologists are expected to deceptive research.
 
  a. refrain from
  b. conceptualize
  c. debrief following
  d. clarify all

Question 7

Brandi loves to give advice, and recently a local radio station gave her a two-hour show for people to call in and ask for psychological advice. Brandi is actually not trained in psychology, but people love the folksy wisdom she doles out on the show. What sorts of public statements does Brandi need to make as she gives out advice in this public forum?
 
  a. Brandi needs to indicate she is going to go work on a degree in psychology.
  b. Brandi needs to remind her listeners that she does not have a degree in psychology.
  c. Brandi needs to act as if the advice she dispenses if from scientific studies, even if it is really just her opinion based on experience.
  d. Brandi should do all of these.

Question 8

Psychologists are expected to end treatment when the client is clearly
 
  a. unable to pay or becomes disinterested.
  b. not benefiting or being harmed by the treatment.
  c. a better candidate for medication.
  d. not anticipating any change.