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The Career Patient: 
People Who Repeatedly Seek Psychological Support.

By Ross Ellenhorn, Ph.D.
 
The author states that Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a highly
structured cognitive–behavioral intervention that uses a combination of
group and individual treatment.
True  
False  

 
The author claims that parasuicidality is primarily an other-oriented
gesture aimed to engender in clinical professionals an anxious need to
attend to the person exhibiting it.
True  
False  

 
Individuals who engage in parasuicidal behaviors as a means to access a
therapeutic response are trapped in this difficult dialectic of failure.
True  
False  

 
For the self-defined failed person, acts of independence are not signs
to others that the past was not as bad as he or she portrays it.
True  
False  

 
The self-defined failed person feels terror when he or she feels held
continuously within the consciousnesses of others.
True  
False  

 
Patient careers, in other words, are co-constructed between clients and
clinicians.
True  
False  

 
The pervasive threat to clinicians of liability is the third tendency in
modern Western medicine’s contributing to the co-construction of patient
careers.
True  
False  

 
Authentic relationships and the role-bounded relationships shaped by
careerist themes do not contrast sharply.
True  
False  

 
Careerist interactions are constrained by fixed ideas about the past and
the future of the parties involved.
True  
False