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wrbasek0 · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

A 21-year-old female student engages her college's counseling center for treatment of symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, including excessive worry, sleep disturbance, and irritability over the past six months. Based on the meta-analytic research evidence, which of the following therapy approaches is most likely to prove effective?

a. Relaxation training or cognitive therapy
b. In vivo desensitization or assertiveness training
c. Learned optimism or hypnosis
d. Psychodynamic therapy or modeling

Question 2

A meta-analysis comparing the effectiveness of treatments for generalized anxiety disorder (GAd. and panic disorder showed that:

a. relaxation training and cognitive therapy produced similar outcomes for GAD, but relaxationtraining showed better results for panic disorder.
b. cognitive therapy was superior to relaxation training for panic disorder, but relaxation training wasmore effective for GAD.
c. relaxation training and cognitive therapy showed similar results in treating GAD, but cognitivetherapy was more effective in treating panic disorder.
d. cognitive therapy and relaxation training were equivalent in their effectiveness for both GAD andpanic disorder.