Nancy Needs to Have Surgery and She Wants to Make

question 27

Multiple Choice

Nancy needs to have surgery and she wants to make sure that her surgeon is the most skilled. What question should she ask potential surgeons?

• A) "Where did you go to medical school?"
• B) "How often have you performed this operation?"
• C) "How many years have you been a surgeon?"
• D) "What was your undergraduate GPA?"

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Definitions:

Unconditional Positive Regard

A concept in client-centered therapy suggesting therapists should offer their clients acceptance and support regardless of what the client says or does.

Free Association

A psychoanalytic technique in which a patient says whatever comes to mind without censorship as a way of uncovering unconscious thoughts and feelings.

Behavior Therapy

Therapeutic orientation that employs principles of learning to help clients change undesirable behaviors.

Psychoanalysis

Therapeutic orientation developed by Sigmund Freud that employs free association, dream analysis, and transference to uncover repressed feelings.