Client: If I had behaved better as a child, my mother wouldn't have become an alcoholic. Therapist: Your mother was responsible for her drinking, not you. The therapist is using a cognitive technique called
a. decatastrophizing.
b. labeling of distortions.
c. reattribution.
d. Socratic dialogue.
C
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Which advanced correlation method is used to define and explain a causal linkage to a measurable outcome?
a. Factor analysis b. Multiple regression c. Log linear regression d. Path analysis
When a helper's facial expression radiates concern in response to a client's tearful recounting of a loss experience, this is an example of __________
a. animation b. mirroring c. sympathy d. resonant empathy
Bill, a 7 year-old boy, wears a football jacket with the logo of his favorite football team to school every day, and feels bigger and stronger because of this. Bill is illustrating the defense mechanism of
a. identification. b. intellectualization. c. regression. d. repression.
A woman who has difficulties accepting adulthood and is still attached to her father may be said to experience this Jungian phenomena
a. Electra complex b. anima c. puella aeterna d. puer aeternus