Max and Sara are planning the bat mitzvah of their daughter. While they are putting together a list of guests to invite, they come to Max's older uncle, Meyer. "Gee, I don't know if we should invite him," Max says. "He's been so lonely lately, and he doesn't seem to want to do anything by himself. I wouldn't want to make him feel bad about not coming!" Which of the following events has Meyer
recently experienced?
a. He lost his job.
b. His wife died.
c. His lost his home to foreclosure.
d. He was diagnosed with a moderately serious illness.
b
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When a husband blames himself for not having enough interest in engaging in sexual activity with his wife, the rational-emotive therapist he is seeing is most likely to
a. listen politely and paraphrase what the husband has just said. b. interpret the symbolic meaning of the husband's refusal to engage in sexual activity with his wife. c. dispute the husband's thinking and examine alternative reasons for his lack of sexual interest. d. look at the reinforcers that are missing in the husband's sexual activities.
The human-potential movement, which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s, resulted most directly in
a. the realization that there is no such thing as freedom to choose. b. a renewed interest in Freudian psychoanalysis. c. the extension of therapy to people who did not have psychological disorders. d. a review of the practices used in the area of biomedical therapy.