Drug Rehabilitation Programs Often Require That Their Patients Discontinue Contact

question 67

Multiple Choice

Drug rehabilitation programs often require that their patients discontinue contact with old "using" friends, and maintain friendships with new "clean" friends only. One reason that this makes sense from a social psychological standpoint is that by changing their social networks in this way, ____.

• A) patients will have a better shot at creating new, more positive self-concepts
• B) patients will be forced to engage in more introspection
• C) patients will engage in more self-awareness
• D) patients will be less likely to experience the overjustification effect

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Definitions:

Behaviour Therapies

Therapeutic methods aimed at altering undesirable behaviors through conditioning techniques.

Effectiveness

The degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result.

Insight Therapies

Insight therapies are a category of psychotherapies that aim to improve mental health by encouraging self-understanding and insight into one's own behaviors and motivations.

Antidepressant Drugs

Medications designed to alleviate symptoms of depression by adjusting the chemical balance in the brain.