Which Statement About Helping Clients Who Are Stressed Is True

question 3

Multiple Choice

Which statement about helping clients who are stressed is true? You can help them by:

• A)Being sympathetic to their feelings
• B)Trying to invalidate their feelings
• C)Telling them that everything will be okay
• D)Providing compassionate care

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Definitions:

Cognitive Dissonance

The psychological dissonance faced when someone maintains a variety of opposing beliefs, ideas, or values simultaneously.

Foot-In-The-Door Phenomenon

A psychological tactic involving getting a person to agree to a large request by first setting them up to agree to a modest request.

Attitude

An inclination of the mind depicted by appraising a given entity with a level of approval or disapproval.

Fundamental Attribution Error

a bias in social psychology where a person underestimates situational influences and overestimates dispositional (personality) influences on another's behavior.