This same women further reported many memories of running home from school excited to tell her parents about the day's events and longing to have contact with them to only find her parents passed out from alcohol abuse or unpredictably and frighteningly abusive toward her. Not surprisingly, she reported panic-like bouts of anxiety before coming to her second and third therapy sessions and
whenever she seemed to be looking forward to potentially satisfying social connections and thus worked hard to avoid thinking about such experiences. This is known as:
a. phobic avoidance.
b. negative reinforcement.
c. implosion repression.
d. avoidance repression.
D
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