Preventive Mental Health Attempts to Reduce the Likelihood of Psychological

question 97

Multiple Choice

Preventive mental health attempts to reduce the likelihood of psychological disorders by

• A) enabling more people to see professional psychotherapists.
• B) encouraging depressed people to take more personal responsibility for their own problems.
• C) establishing programs to wipe out poverty and other demoralizing social conditions.
• D) emphasizing the importance of using a biomedical approach to therapy.

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