Your friend believes that psychotherapy is useless, and that emotional problems are just as likely to go away without treatment. You disagree, because evaluation studies have found that psychotherapy:
A. has an approximate success rate of 50 percent
B. is more effective than no treatment
C. is more effective than drug therapy
D. may be effective, because the patient expects it to be effective
Answer: B
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a. dysfunctional mood disorder c. dysthymic disorder b. abbreviated mood disorder d. bipolar II disorder
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A. A client B. Attention to unconscious processes C. A theory about the causes of the client's problems D. A set of procedures for dealing with client's problems
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