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When Gary Lost His Job, He Became Depressed and Started

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When Gary lost his job, he became depressed and started binge-eating. Gary started to seek help from a therapist. To his surprise, the therapist was not at all interested in Gary's relationship with his mother, his family history, or anything about Gary's past. Instead, Dr. Lee focuses on what Gary is currently thinking and how he interprets those thoughts. Dr. Lee conducts therapy from what type of perspective?


Definitions:

Stability

The condition of being resistant to change and not easily upset or disturbed.

Internality

The belief in one's ability to control events and outcomes in their own life, often associated with a proactive mindset.

Externality

A term in economics where a cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.

External Attribution

The process of attributing the cause of one's own or others' behavior to external factors, rather than to internal personality traits.

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