Focusing on Enhancing Patient Self-Awareness and Understanding of Their Problems

question 10

Multiple Choice

Focusing on enhancing patient self-awareness and understanding of their problems works best for patients who ________,whereas patients who ________ respond best to a focus on symptom alleviation.

• A)are undercontrolled; are introspective
• B)have an internalizing style; have an externalizing style
• C)are extroverted; are introverted
• D)have an externalizing style ; have an internalizing style

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Definitions:

Norepinephrine

A neurotransmitter and hormone involved in the body's response to stress, also playing a key role in alertness and the fight-or-flight response.

Id

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that contains our primitive impulses such as sex, anger, and hunger, and operates on the pleasure principle.

Pleasure Principle

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to the instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoidance of pain to satisfy biological and psychological needs.

Morality

Principles or standards determining what behaviors are considered right or wrong by a society or individual.