7. Would you describe Family Based Therapy as pseudoscience or as a scientifically-based treatment for anorexia? Explain.
The pseudoscience is the therapy or evidence that resembles science but they do not have substantial evidence to prove their creditability. Family-based therapy is not pseudoscience. It has been used in the treatment of different disorders. This can be used to treat the eating disorders in a person. This has many scientific pieces of evidence that prove that they are effective and used in scientific methodology.
7. Would you describe Family Based Therapy as pseudoscience or as a scientifically-based treatment for anorexia?...
In family therapy, the “client” is the whole family. Describe how family therapy would proceed without relieving individual family members of their responsibility for their own behavior. Describe the differences between structural family therapy and strategic family therapy.
do you think behavioral family system therapy or ego-oriented individual therapy would be more successful in treating individuals suffering from anorexia nervosa
Discussion Topics, Mohr Chapter 4, Evidence-Based Practice Discussion Topics Learning Objective 1. When talking to a friend, she reveals to you that she has been taking an over-the-counter herb to help treat depression, and she feels as if it is working for her. What are your personal beliefs about unproved treatments? Would you use a treatment or therapy that was not scientifically proven? 5, 6 2. Two nurses are having a debate as to whether evidence-based care or pseudoscience should...
When talking to a friend, she reveals to you that she has been taking an over-the-counter herb to help treat depression, and she feels as if it is working for her. What are your personal beliefs about unproved treatments? Would you use a treatment or therapy that was not scientifically proven? 2. Two nurses are having a debate as to whether evidence-based care or pseudoscience should primarily be used in mental health care. Compare and contrast evidence-based care and pseudoscience....
A researcher is interested in understanding the effects of type of therapy (CBT vs. family-based) and level of motivation (low vs. high) on treatment success rates in adolescents. The graphs below depict possible outcomes. NOTE: If the graphs (x2) do not show up, please email me. For the graph below (Graph 1), answer the following questions: (6) 9 7 Treatment success 2. 1 0 CBT Family-based Low High a. Is the main effect of type of therapy significant? (yes or...
Discuss specific techniques used by the family-based treatment (FBT), Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), Acceptance commitment therapy (ACT) for eating disorders individuals
What is the basic of premise of family therapy as a treatment?
Researchers conduct an experiment to determine which therapy for anorexia results in the highest weight gain, on average. They collected data on pre- and post-weights for 72 anorexic girls who were randomly assigned to one of three treatments: cognitive therapy, family therapy, or a control group (no therapy). You will analyze the weight change (post-pre) for each of the three treatments. What is the response variable for this experiment? anorexic girls weight change type of therapy control group What is...
During a visit to her family physician, a 35-year-old woman discloses that she suffers from anorexia nervosa. She complains of fatigue, dizziness, depression headaches, irregular menses, and environmental allergies. Each day, she uses 15 to 60 laxatives, exercises for several hours, and eats a salad or half a sandwich. At 52, she weighs 88 pounds. She demonstrates a good understanding of the diagnosis and the recommended therapy for anorexia. Despite receiving a varlety of resource information, the patient refuses any...
1. How would you explain the procedure for determining the degrees of freedom for a T Test for Dependent Means? 2. What is the value of the degrees of freedom that is reported in the output? 3. Does this correspond to the value obtained using the formula for the degrees of freedom? 4. Based on the results of the T Test for Dependent Means, what would you conclude about the effects of family therapy on weight increase for girls with...