Dr. Ramirez is treating a patient for whom she has made a specific diagnosis. she has decided that she will not refer this patient to his physician to consider the use of psychotropic medications, because psychotherapy is more effective for this particular problem. from which condition is the patient most likely to suffer?

In their 1957 study of 110 nonindustrialized societies, Barry, Bacon, and Child found that most societies valued the following qualities in males:

a. achievement and self-reliance. b. nurturance and obedience. c. obedience and responsibility. d. nurturance and achievement.

Which of the following is a criticism leveled against the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?

A. The concurrent validity and the test-retest reliability of the MMPI have been found to be low. B. The MMPI has limited application as a general screening device for detecting people who are functioning very poorly psychologically. C. The MMPI cannot be translated into different languages to meet the needs of different cultural groups. D. The norms for the original MMPI were not representative of people from a wide range of ethnic and racial backgrounds, age groups, and social classes.