The therapeutic modality for most programs for batterers relies on:

A) an empathic listening and responding approach to assure clients they are heard and cared for.?

B) ?a confrontational approach to catch minimizing and projecting of inadequate and insecure behaviors onto significant others.

C) ?a cognitive-behavioral approach that changes irrational thinking, self-sabotaging, selective forgetting, setting oneself up for violence, and other maladaptive cognitions.

D) ?a dynamic approach that helps achieve insight into present behaviors by interpreting and understanding past behaviors from childhood.


C

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a. Cyberbullying increases the rate of suicide in the victim, while bullying does not. b. Bullying increases the likelihood of suicide in the victim, while cyberbullying does not. c. Bullies are at increased risk for suicide while victims of bullies are not. d. Both bullies and their victims are at increased risk of suicide.

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A. mean B. median C. mode D. range

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a. act b. polarity c. opposition d. counterbalance

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In behavioral therapy, what is biofeedback?

It is a type of feedback the client can get by asking people who are close to him or her how he or she is perceived (angry, sad, happy, friendly, etc.). b. Through messages given by measuring devices such as blood pressure cuffs, people can learn to condition the responses of their nervous systems. c. By meditating, clients can get in touch with their bodies and discover what emotions they feel. d. By weighing each week, a person who is struggling with weight can reinforce good behavior or extinguish bad behavior. e. By communicating with nature, people get in touch with their biological selves.

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