Anita has recently learned that she suffers from a progressive neurological disease that will, in time, rob her of her ability to make decisions for herself. She and her husband go to an attorney, and ask for a document that assigns the husband as the person who will act as her agent for medical decisions when she is no longer able to do so for herself. The document they are requesting is called a ____.
a. living will
b. Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order
c. health care power of attorney
d. state enforced active euthanasia contract
c. health care power of attorney
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Regarding the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, it was discovered that:
A. antidepressant drugs are only effective for compulsions involving checking B. psychoanalysis is highly effective C. spontaneous recovery of obsessions occurs within minutes of the therapy session D. not all people respond to drug treatment
A major contribution of the humanistic perspective is its ____
a. insistence on rigorous empirical studies b. primary focus on improving the mental health of persons with serious disorders c. positive view of the individual d. emphasis on blocked instinctual forces
The frequency of sleep terrors is a. equal in boys and girls
b. higher in girls than boys. c. higher in boys than girls. d. higher in adults than children.
Research on the biological causes of schizophrenia has mainly focused on neurotransmitters associated with
A) negative symptoms. B) positive symptoms. C) cognitive impairments. D) social cognition.