Despite Knowing That Her Parents Only Want the Best from Her

question 26

Multiple Choice

Despite knowing that her parents only want the best from her, Saki feels immense pressure to achieve and maintain the family's positive image. From this, she suffers anxiety. Given her Asian American identity, which of the following scenarios is most likely?

• A) Sally will be reluctant to seek mental health services.
• B) Sally will be encouraged by her parents to seek mental health services.
• C) Sally's parents refuse to believe she is anxious.
• D) Sally will seek mental health services but will not benefit.

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Definitions:

Sexual Attachment

The emotional bond that forms through sexual activity, which can play a significant role in interpersonal relationships.

Electra Complex

A concept in psychoanalytic theory describing a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory by Freud that suggests a child's unconscious desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.

Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.