A Common Ingredient Underlying the Success of Diverse Psychotherapies Is

question 4

Multiple Choice

A common ingredient underlying the success of diverse psychotherapies is the

• A) professional training and experience of the therapist.
• B) escape from real-life pressures offered by psychotherapy.
• C) length of time the client spends in psychotherapy.
• D) client's expectation that psychotherapy will make things better.

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Definitions:

Schizophrenia

A chronic mental disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and a loss of contact with reality.

Perfectionism

A personality trait characterized by a person's striving for flawlessness and setting excessively high performance standards.

Rumination

The compulsive focused attention on the symptoms of one's distress, and on its possible causes and consequences, as opposed to its solutions.

Ideas of Persecution

Thoughts or beliefs that one is being wronged, targeted, or persecuted unfairly, often without evidence and typically seen in various psychiatric conditions.