Behavior Therapists View a Good Therapeutic Relationship As

question 8

Multiple Choice

Behavior therapists view a good therapeutic relationship as:

• A)necessary, but not sufficient, to effect therapeutic change in most instances.
• B)irrelevant to treatment.
• C)nice, but optional.
• D)a distraction that gets the focus off of the client's problematic behavior.
• E)necessary and sufficient to effect therapeutic change.

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Definitions:

Bromides

Compounds containing the bromide ion or compounds that act as a sedative; colloquially used to refer to common sayings or platitudes that lack originality.

Platitudes

Statements that are used often and over time have become trite, commonplace, or clichéd.

Pareto Efficient Allocation

An allocation of resources that cannot be modified to make anyone better off without making someone else worse off.

Utility Function

An economic model that represents a consumer's preference ranking for various bundles of goods by assigning a utility value to each bundle.