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What all good therapies have in common is that they give people hope; help them think more carefully about themselves and about their relationships with others; and provide a positive, empathic, and trusting relationship with the therapist. This ‘truth’ about therapy supports the ___ effect as the reason why therapy works. 

  People with ___ are clingy and fear separation from others, fear upsetting relationship partners, usually permitting their partners to make important decisions for them.

What all good therapies have in common is that they give people hope; help them think more carefully about themselves and about their relationships with others; and provide a positive, empathic, and trusting relationship with the therapist. This ‘truth’ about therapy supports the ___ effect as the reason why therapy works. 

People with ___ feel little distress for the pain they cause others. They lie, engage in violence against animals and people, and frequently have drug and alcohol abuse problems.

It is difficult to assess the effectiveness of pharmaceutical drugs for the treatment of psychological disorders. What we know is that they do change the behavior of some people. What we don’t know is why, because

People with ___ feel little distress for the pain they cause others. They lie, engage in violence against animals and people, and frequently have drug and alcohol abuse problems.

The goal of cognitive therapy is not necessarily to get people to think more positively, but rather to ___.

Recently, there has been concern that SSRIs may increase the risk of suicide among teens and young adults, probably because when the medications begin working they give patients more energy, which may lead them to commit the suicide that they had been planning, but lacked the energy to go through with. This concern has led the FDA to put a warning label on SSRI medications and has led doctors to be more selective about prescribing ___ to this age group

Are the increases in the diagnosis of ___ due to the fact that today’s children and adolescents are actually more distracted and hyperactive than their parents were, due to a greater awareness of this condition among teachers and parents, or due to psychologists and psychiatrists’ tendency to overdiagnose the problem? Perhaps drug companies are also involved, because the condition is often treated with prescription medications, including stimulants, such as Ritalin

The goal of cognitive therapy is not necessarily to get people to think more positively, but rather to ___.