A large body of research has shown that the amount of progress in therapy that clients make can be reliably predicted by:
a. a client's pretreatment stage of change.
b. a client's stage of change after the first session of therapy.
c. a client's stage of change at the end of therapy.
d. a therapist's ability to employ action stage processes of change.
A
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