The Goals of the 15-Minute Hour Approach Include

question 9

Multiple Choice

The goals of the 15-minute hour approach include:

• A)Enhance self-esteem, expand behavioral repertoire, prevent dire consequences, and reestablish premorbid levels of functioning
• B)Emerge with a higher level of functioning and commitment to long-term psychotherapy
• C)Accept need for antidepressant therapy and psychiatric referral; share concerns with primary care clinician
• D)Improve family functioning and sexual performance as well as accept need for antidepressant medication

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Definitions:

Fixedness

A cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used, hindering problem-solving and creativity.

Representativeness Heuristic

A mental shortcut that involves making a probability judgment by comparing an object or event to a prototype of the object or event.

Availability Heuristic

A cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the importance of information that is readily available to them.

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it, known also as the "I-knew-it-all-along" effect.