A Person Is Most Likely to Be Treated Using Somatic

question 157

Multiple Choice

A person is most likely to be treated using somatic therapy rather than psychotherapy if he or she has

• A) severe phobias or conversion disorder.
• B) a dissociative fugue or dissociative identity disorders.
• C) somatic symptom or factitious disorders.
• D) had a psychotic break or if the problem is due to a biochemical imbalance in the brain.

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Definitions:

Comparison Group

A group in a study that does not receive the treatment or intervention and is used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested group performs.

Emphasize

To give special importance or prominence to something in speaking or writing.

Self-presentation Strategies

Techniques used by individuals to control the impressions others form of them during social interactions.

Ingratiation

Behaving in ways to make oneself likable to others.