A patient experiences double approach-avoidance conflicts associated with the need to replace maladaptive behaviors with more adaptive behaviors. This tendency is exhibited when the patient:
a. wishes to both pursue and avoid the same goal.
b. is required to choose between two undesirable goals.
c. seeks to pursue two equally desirable but incompatible goals.
d. sees both desirable and undesirable aspects of two alternatives.
D
Double approach-avoidance conflicts result in experiencing both desirable and undesirable aspects of two alternatives. This dual emotional state is called ambivalence.
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