A Client Uses Stimuli Produced Both by a Stressful Situation

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Multiple Choice

A client uses stimuli produced both by a stressful situation and by his own behavior in that situation as SDs for instructing himself to engage in appropriate coping behavior.This is an example of:

• A)Ellis's rational-emotive therapy
• B)Meichenbaum's self-instructional therapy
• C)Beck's cognitive therapy
• D)Wolpe's thought-stopping therapy

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