When Dialectical Behavior Therapy Is Used with Patients with Borderline

question 183

Multiple Choice

When dialectical behavior therapy is used with patients with borderline personality disorder, those patients, compared with patients receiving other forms of therapy, make:

• A) far fewer suicide attempts and are hospitalized less often.
• B) far fewer suicide attempts but are hospitalized about as often.
• C) about the same number of suicide attempts but are hospitalized less often.
• D) about the same number of suicide attempts and are hospitalized about as often.

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