A Therapist Who Is Working with a Client Diagnosed with Generalized

question 50

Multiple Choice

A therapist who is working with a client diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder decides to use stress inoculation training.Which of the following is likely to take place during this treatment?

• A) First, the client is taught how certain thought patterns lead to anxiety, and is also taught how to cope with potential threats. Next, the client rehearses these coping skills and then applies them in various stressful conditions.
• B) The client is "flooded" or "imploded" with anxiety by being forced to remain in the most anxiety-provoking situation imaginable, thus decreasing the anxiety experienced in similar but less extreme situations.
• C) Unconscious conflicts that underlie the anxiety are explored in order to neutralize the anxiety at the most fundamental psychological level.
• D) more than one of the above

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