Thursday, April 08, 2004
Hello everybody sorry this is so late.
Here are my answers to the questions:
1. A
2. D
3. D
4. C
5. D
In th readings this week I found nothing that really moved me, however after watching a little bit of TV last night and having a discusion with Jamie earlier today, I would like to respond to the show Swan. This brought many ehtical questions. In this show women with low self-esteem are given as much plastic surgery as they can handle to "make them more beautiful." All of this is done without the assessment of a psychologist. There is however a psychologist on teh show who functions as a sounding board for these women to talk about how their self esteem is low. As Jamie and I discussed we felt that this is not the role the psychologist should play. The psychologist has a duty to help these women deal with their reeaction to this drastic change and to find out how thit will help them, by not doing this the therapist is in gross negelgance of her duties. I hoped that maybe we could discuss this a little in class, i would also like to hear anyone else's reactions to this.
Here are my answers to the questions:
1. A
2. D
3. D
4. C
5. D
In th readings this week I found nothing that really moved me, however after watching a little bit of TV last night and having a discusion with Jamie earlier today, I would like to respond to the show Swan. This brought many ehtical questions. In this show women with low self-esteem are given as much plastic surgery as they can handle to "make them more beautiful." All of this is done without the assessment of a psychologist. There is however a psychologist on teh show who functions as a sounding board for these women to talk about how their self esteem is low. As Jamie and I discussed we felt that this is not the role the psychologist should play. The psychologist has a duty to help these women deal with their reeaction to this drastic change and to find out how thit will help them, by not doing this the therapist is in gross negelgance of her duties. I hoped that maybe we could discuss this a little in class, i would also like to hear anyone else's reactions to this.
Thursday, April 01, 2004
Answers to questions for Dawes, 1994:
1. D
2. A
3. D
4. A
5. C
I think that this article confirms what we already know, clinicians judgment is not always the best. If clincal judgement was always accurate there would be no need for reseach, because we would just intuitively kinow what to do and all of our ptients would get better. This areticle provides a strong argument for the us of outcome measures when engaging in treatment. Without the use of these measures we are simply using our judgement as to whether not epole are getting better, and as we know our judgement is not so good in this area.
This article also provides an argument for the use of empirically validated tretments. If we have statistical information to tell us that 2/3's of the people we treat will get better when usinga certain treatment, we have more cofidence in ourselves and it also gives our patients confidence in us. They can be told the facts instead of us saying we aer going to try this an you might get better, but we are not sure if this type of treatment will work for your paricular disorder or not.
1. D
2. A
3. D
4. A
5. C
I think that this article confirms what we already know, clinicians judgment is not always the best. If clincal judgement was always accurate there would be no need for reseach, because we would just intuitively kinow what to do and all of our ptients would get better. This areticle provides a strong argument for the us of outcome measures when engaging in treatment. Without the use of these measures we are simply using our judgement as to whether not epole are getting better, and as we know our judgement is not so good in this area.
This article also provides an argument for the use of empirically validated tretments. If we have statistical information to tell us that 2/3's of the people we treat will get better when usinga certain treatment, we have more cofidence in ourselves and it also gives our patients confidence in us. They can be told the facts instead of us saying we aer going to try this an you might get better, but we are not sure if this type of treatment will work for your paricular disorder or not.
