​ One Reason Why Beginning Therapists Are Reluctant to Approach

question 17

Multiple Choice

​ One reason why beginning therapists are reluctant to approach their client's resistance is because of the therapist's strong need:

• A)for their clients to like them.
• B)to avoid difficult feelings.
• C)to avoid inferring that the client's motivations are questionable.
• D)all of these choices are correct.

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Definitions:

Unobtrusive Measures

Methods of collecting data that do not interfere with the subjects being studied.

Reactivity

Reactivity is the tendency of people to alter their performance or behavior due to the awareness that they are being observed.

Reactivity

The phenomenon where subjects alter their behavior due to their awareness of being observed.

Convergent Validity

A measure of the extent to which two independent measures of the same concept are correlated.