Instructions: Imagine That You Are Talking with a Client About Emotional

question 71

Multiple Choice

Instructions:
Imagine that you are talking with a client about emotional child abuse. You have just confronted the client with the following statement: "On one hand, you say you love your child, but on the other hand you continue to put her out in the hall of your apartment where you force her to stand in the dark. How do you put that together?"Classify the following client's response using the CCS scale .
-Client response: "I don't understand what you are saying. There's no need to put it together. There's no problem. That's the way I do it."This client is where on the CCS?

• A)​Denial
• B)​Partial examination
• C)​Decision to live with incongruity
• D)Development of new constructs, patterns, or behaviors

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Definitions:

Social Cognition

The process of understanding and interpreting social interactions and the behavior of others through the use of mental processes and schemas.

Ventromedial Brain Damage

Damage to the ventromedial region of the frontal lobes of the brain, often affecting decision-making, emotion, and social behavior.

Arousal Level

The state of being physiologically alert, awake, and attentive.

Somatic Marker Hypothesis

The idea that changes in the body, experienced as emotion, guide decision making.