You attend a lecture by a psychologist who uses terms such as free will and growth. Which psychological perspective is most consistent with the points the psychologist presented?

The theorist and therapist who deserves the most credit for our understanding of the importance of the therapeutic alliance was

a. Sigmund Freud. b. Carl Rogers. c. Fritz Perls. d. Erik Erikson.

Canadian researcher Alistair Cunningham and colleagues at the Ontario Cancer Institute found the following in terms of the benefits of psychological interventions with patients, except that

a) no significant improvements in terms of self-reports of mood and quality and life. b) the amount of psychological work that patients engaged in correlated with longevity. c) patients' expectancy that psychological efforts would have a positive effect correlated with positive outcome. d) group interventions were better than individual psychotherapy in terms of outcome.