Scenario II It Is Challenging to Conclusively Demonstrate the Effectiveness of Treatments

question 8

Multiple Choice

Scenario II
It is challenging to conclusively demonstrate the effectiveness of treatments for psychological disorders. Although treatments may appear to work, their apparent effectiveness could be due to a number of other factors, termed treatment illusions. Treatments may appear effective due to natural improvement unrelated to the treatment, placebo effects in which the apparent effectiveness of a treatment is due to the expectancy of its effectiveness, and reconstructive memory in which persons remember their symptoms prior to treatment as more severe than they were.
-(Scenario II) Treatment for which of these psychological disorders is most susceptible to the treatment illusion of natural improvement?

• A)major depressive disorder
• B)schizophrenia
• C)obsessive-compulsive disorder
• D)autism spectrum disorder

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