Which of the following statements most accurately summarizes Whitaker's concept of the battle for initiative?

A) Therapists should avoid tension and crisis in therapy at all costs.
B) Therapists should never work harder than their clients.
C) Clients should not initiate change; the therapist should.
D) Clients should allow their therapist to be overly helpful and to push their change.


B

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A. The culture will fight to maintain its traditions; even the women of the culture will often oppose any change in the way things are done. B. The culture will welcome the new medical knowledge and seek other ways to ritually initiate women. C. The culture will seek to become more like the United States because they want to please their visitors. D. Members of the culture will pretend to be accepting of the information while not actually changing anything.

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A. True B. False

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a. capitalism based on multinational mega-corporations b. corporations that have multinational interlocking boards of directors c. capitalism that has led to the degradation of work d. all of the above e. only a and b

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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