The activities director at a local college decides to make therapy mandatory for all students who report any type of assault. What do you see as an outcome of this mandatory therapy, and why?

a) Mandatory therapy may impede the victims' recovery because the majority of people are resilient.
b) Mandatory therapy will likely accelerate the victims' recovery because it will force people to deal with repressed emotions.
Consider This: Most people can overcome traumatic experiences with time.
LO 10.5: Explain resilience, its relation to trauma and individual differences in resilience
c) Mandatory therapy will likely improve the victims' recovery because it will reduce the effects of PTSD.
Consider This: Most people can overcome traumatic experiences with time.
LO 10.5: Explain resilience, its relation to trauma and individual differences in resilience
d) Mandatory therapy will likely reduce the victims' recovery because it will create PTSD.
Consider This: Most people can overcome traumatic experiences with time.
LO 10.5: Explain resilience, its relation to trauma and individual differences in resilience

ANS: a