In Describing Depression to a Patient an Interpersonal Therapist Would

question 41

Multiple Choice

In describing depression to a patient an interpersonal therapist would explain that:

• A)psychosocial triggers cause depression but medications can help.
• B)depression is biological but symptoms can be triggered by stress.
• C)unconscious factors related to childhood will be the treatment focus.
• D)dysfunctional thoughts and maladaptive core beliefs create depression.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An approach to quantifying how much a group of numbers disperses or varies from each other.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them together and dividing by the number of values.

Median

The median is the middle value in a list of numbers sorted in ascending or descending order, splitting the dataset into two halves.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variance in a set of values, indicating how spread out the numbers are from the average.