Psychotherapy By Martin E. P Seligman Summary

Martin E. P. Seligman explores what truly is the effectiveness of osmotherapy in is article, Effectiveness of Psychotherapy. Seligman starts his article by summarizing how the efficacy study and the effectiveness study is used to determine the effectiveness of psychotherapy. When using efficacy method a control and treatment groups are randomly assigned and placebos are used in efforts to gain more insight. There are many components to efficacy study which is why when used its results are taken seriously. Seligman once in trusted using efficacy methods to determine what would help patients with certain disorders, but then realized that although this maybe great information the fact that long term therapy has not yet been research this leaves room for the question which is more effective. It has been argued that long term psychotherapy is too difficult to adequately research, therefore no one has perused the challenge. Another is Seligman writes about is the fact that efficacy research doesn’t include all the elements of actual psychotherapy and for this reason he questions the entire Seligman has a valid point when he writes “a substantial body of literature validating a panoply of short-term therapies the psychotherapist does not perform, and with the long-term, eclectic therapy he or she does perform unproven (1995).” …show more content…
Through a consumer report Seligman learned the following:
• Mental health professionals have an positive and effective role with peoples mental health.
• While long term psychotherapy resulted in more improvements, there was not much difference reported between psychotherapy alone and psychotherapy plus medication.
• Psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers did equally well and better than marriage