Studies That Have Controlled for the Effects of Early Improvement

question 34

Multiple Choice

Studies that have controlled for the effects of early improvement have found that early therapeutic alliance

• A)no longer significantly predicts treatment outcome.
• B)still significantly predicts treatment outcome.
• C)only predicts treatment outcome for low reactant clients.
• D)only predicts treatment outcome for high reactant clients.

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Definitions:

Counterconditioning

A behavior therapy technique involving the conditioning of an unwanted behavior or response to a stimulus into a desired behavior by association with a positive action or outcome.

Transference

The process by which emotions, desires, and expectations originally associated with one person are unconsciously redirected towards another person.

Resistance

The refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.

Unconscious

Part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but that affects behavior and emotions.