How are the cognitive-behavioral and the AA 12-step approach to the treatment of alcohol abuse different?
A) Cognitive-behavioral approaches emphasize skills to control addiction rather than always requiring complete abstinence.
B) Twelve-step programs reject the disease or medical model of addiction.
C) Cognitive-behavioral approaches lack the empirical support that AA programs have established.
D) There is no fundamental difference other than the 12-step program belief that only a Higher Power can cure the person.
Answer: A
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a. People with economic difficulties are especially likely to be depressed. b. Women who do more housework are less likely to suffer from depression. c. Women's attention to their appearance seems to reduce their incidence of depression. d. Experience with discrimination seems to make women stronger, reducing their incidence of depression.
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