A 21-year-old female student engages her college's counseling center for treatment of symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, including excessive worry, sleep disturbance, and irritability over the past six months. Based on the meta-analytic research evidence, which of the following therapy approaches is most likely to prove effective?
a. Relaxation training or cognitive therapy
b. In vivo desensitization or assertiveness training
c. Learned optimism or hypnosis
d. Psychodynamic therapy or modeling
A
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a. automatic thoughts. c. cognitive triad. b. basic rules. d. content specificity.
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