According to Denton (1996), what is the first step in implementing change?

When dialectical behavior therapy is used with patients with borderline personality disorder, those patients, compared to patients receiving other forms of therapy, make:

A) far fewer suicide attempts, and are hospitalized less often. B) far fewer suicide attempts, but are hospitalized about as often. C) about the same number of suicide attempts, but are hospitalized less often. D) about the same number of suicide attempts, and are hospitalized about as often.

Mental health professionals holding the psychodynamic perspective view mental disorders

to be the result of a. intrapsychic conflict. b. malfunctioning of the brain and nervous system. c. learned maladaptive behavior patterns. d. oversensitivity to the demands and criticisms of others. e. one of four body humors or a combination thereof.