Compared to the Years Following WWII, Which of the Following

question 76

Multiple Choice

Compared to the years following WWII, which of the following represents a change in psychotherapy because of changes in health insurance (such as the development of HMOs) ?

• A) More people have insurance, so therapies tend to last much longer than in the past.
• B) Therapy tends to take longer now because there are so many more diagnoses listed in DSM-IV.
• C) The Freudian approach to psychotherapy has become increasingly popular since HMOs officially recognized the benefit of dream analysis.
• D) There is now extensive research on the effectiveness of the different types of psychotherapy.

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Definitions:

Exponents

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Production Function

A mathematical representation that describes the relationship between inputs used in production and the output achieved.

Returns To Scale

A term in economics that describes how the change in the amount of input affects the change in output of a production process.

Production Function

Describes the relationship between the quantities of inputs used in production and the quantity of output produced, illustrating how input changes affect output.