Leondra Plans to Begin Therapy to Deal with Her Depression

question 38

Multiple Choice

Leondra plans to begin therapy to deal with her depression sometime in the next 6 months. According to the transtheoretical model, she is in the______ stage.

• A) Contemplation
• B) Precontemplation
• C) Preparation
• D) Maintenance

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Definitions:

Margaret Mead

An American cultural anthropologist known for her studies and publications on cultural anthropology.

Adolescence

The stage of development encompassing body and mental evolution, initiating with puberty and culminating when legal adulthood is attained.

Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology.

Id, Ego, Superego

Components of the human psyche according to Freudian psychoanalytic theory, where the id represents primitive desires, the ego mediates between the id and the external world, and the superego incorporates societal rules and morals.