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In a Study on Effectiveness of Therapy in Treating Depression

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In a study on effectiveness of therapy in treating depression, participants are randomly assigned to groups so that 10 receive cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and 10 are assigned to a no-treatment control condition. The outcome improvement scores for participants in the CBT group are quite different from each other (e.g., some had minimal improvement scores, while others showed large benefits) . This discrepancy is referred to as:


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Self-Esteem

An individual's subjective evaluation of their own worth, including beliefs about oneself.

Object Relations

A school of psychodynamic thought that emphasizes the real (as opposed to fantasized) relations an individual has with others.

Conditional Positive Regard

Acceptance and love that are contingent upon a person's behaving in certain ways or meeting certain conditions.

Self-Actualization

According to Abraham Maslow and some other adherents of the humanistic approach to personality, the full realization of one’s potential.

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