A group of experts predicted that there would be an increase in therapy provided by master's-level practitioners, paraprofessionals, Internet services, telephone counseling, and self-help groups and a decrease in the use of psychiatrists and psychoanalysis. These future trends were predicted based on
a. pressures to reduce the cost of mental health services.
b. research that shows that paraprofessionals, self-help groups, and Internet counseling provide better care for clients than do psychiatrists.
c. the decreased attention span and motivational level of today's clients to participate in long-term therapy.
d. Internet and telephone services now being able to create the therapeutic alliance as well as long-term therapies did in the past.
A
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a. social competition. b. a self-fulfilling prophecy. c. individuating. d. a just-world belief.
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a. ?delusions b. ?thought disorder c. ?hallucinations d. ?catatonia
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a. the give and take of conversation. b. to hear the sounds of their native language. c. to listen to the noises in their environment. d. to talk to themselves.
What did Dorothy Otnow Lewis discover about the childhoods of murderers?
A. Lewis found only a very weak correlation between difficult childhoods and becoming a murderer. B. A large majority of murderers reported severe childhood abuse, many with significant head injuries. C. She found that most of the murderers had at least one parent who had also committed murder. D. The study showed that many of the murderers had happy, healthy childhood experiences.