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2. Please write, using nonprofessional terms, a description of what is disclosed to a subject
concerning the purpose of the research and its possible risks.
3. Describe your subject population and your method for obtaining the subjects’ informed consent.
Please attach a sample of a written consent. Also indicate briefly where and how these consent
forms will be filed. University policy dictates that they be retained for a period of three years after
the conclusion of the project.
4. If personality tests, questionnaires, or inventories are to be administered, describe the reason for
their use, the manner in which they will be given, and the information to be given to the subjects
about obtained scores. How will you ensure confidentiality of the findings from this research?
5. If your response to any of the following is affirmative, please explain.
. Will deception be used in any aspect of the subject’s relation to the research? YES___
NO___
. Will any stimulus or other conditions be imposed on subjects, or any response be required
of them, that could possibly pose a physical risk? YES___ NO___
. Will any personality tests, questionnaires, or inventories be administered? YES___ NO___
Note: The proposals already submitted for student reviewers to evaluate are not in that format but will be
accepted for review here because they were prepared prior to this memo.
GUIDE TO REVIEW-EVALUATION ANALYSIS
1. For each proposal, decide whether it should be:
. Approved as is
. Approved with minor changes (noted)
. Denied approval until major changes are made in the design and procedure
. Denied approval pending pilot study evaluation on following questionable issues
. Rejected in principle
2. Detail specific benefits/risks, gains/losses if each study is conducted or refused permission.
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CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS
OBJECTIVES
1. To illustrate some of the differences and similarities between alternative approaches to
psychotherapy.
2. To encourage thinking about the forms of therapy that are most appropriate for different types of
mental disorders.
3. To demonstrate the kind of information-gathering process that is involved in a clinical interview of
a prospective client by a therapist.
OVERVIEW
Individuals who seek help for the problems caused by their mental disorders or behavioral malfunctioning
may be treated differently depending on the type of therapeutic approach practiced by their therapist. The
same therapist may proceed differently depending on the presenting symptoms or behavioral problems of
the client/patient. How different are the approaches of therapists who have different psychological
orientations? How are therapeutic strategies varied according to the nature of the problem to be treated or
modified? In this section we will:
1. Begin by discussing the goals of psychotherapy in general and some of the specific objectives of the
major psychological approaches to therapy.
2. Discuss the goals that a person with psychological problems might have in seeking therapy; ask
students what they would expect from therapy.
3. Mention issues of the high cost of therapy, the time required, problems of therapist—client “fit,”
definitions of the client’s “problem,” and determination of when therapy has succeeded or failed.
4. Review basic aspects of therapy based on behavioristic, psychodynamic, and humanistic
principles.
5. Conduct the demonstration on role-playing a clinical interaction.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The decision a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist must make in prescribing the kind of therapy a patient
should receive, or even whether he or she should be given any at all, is a complex one. We tend to think of it
as following in a rather straightforward way from analysis of the “facts”, or the patient’s problems. This is
rarely, if ever, true.
The decision regarding the tactics of therapeutic intervention depends on:
1. The therapist’s interpretation of the facts.
2. The therapist’s type of training and orientation. This, in turn, influences his or her definition of
what constitutes behavior pathology and also determines what behavior and casual relations he or
she will focus on (or even notice). Moreover, the therapist is usually trained to administer only a
limited brand of therapy. The therapist’s values about who should be helped (the young or the old,
men or women, influential people or ordinary ones, those with mild problems or those with severe
ones, rich people or poor ones, attractive people or unattractive ones, interesting people or
uninteresting ones, etc.).
3. The therapist’s attitudes about what behavior is desirable. Should homosexuals be turned into
heterosexuals?