Salvador Minuchin, who investigated patterns of family dysfunction among patients with eating disorders, identified "enmeshment" as
A) a family's willingness to maintain the sick status of the affected member.
B) familial attempts to cover up the family member's illness.
C) the overidentification of family members with the therapist.
D) overinvolvement of all family members in the affairs of one member.
D
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Ryan has ADHD. To help Ryan understand more about his ADHD and perhaps learn to control it, he is hooked up to machines that provide him feedback about his bodily functions. In this way, Ryan hopes to learn to recognize his body's signals and gain more control over his behavior. What is this therapeutic technique called?
a. ADHD extinction c. token economy b. biofeedback training d. behavior rehearsal
Fixed traits are to _____ theorists as malleable traits are to _____ theorists
a. entity; incremental b. incremental; entity c. dispositional; situational d. situational; dispositional
Our brain contains billions of __________
a. neurons b. types of chemical transmitters c. types of motor transmitters d. catecholamines
A major goal of modern inpatient psychiatric treatment is:
A) keeping people with mental illness out of the community for as long as possible. B) permanently curing mental illness. C) quickly returning patients to society as soon as possible. D) punishing the criminally insane.