When an Therapist Asks a Client How She Intends to Kill

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Multiple Choice

When an therapist asks a client how she intends to kill herself, for example with firearms or by using pills, which of these is the therapist NOT assessing?

• A) Lethality of the method
• B) Extent of suicidal intent
• C) Differential activation
• D) Specificity of the plan
• E) None of the above

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Definitions:

Plate Tectonics

The scientific theory that explains the movements of the Earth's lithospheric plates and the phenomena that occur at their boundaries, like earthquakes and volcanic activity.

First Major Extinction

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Epoch

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Ordovician

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