What is behavioral therapy?
A. Uses family therapy principles to improve a person’s health-risk behaviors
B. Offers strategies to help patients better understand the factors and situations that precede alcohol and other drug use as well as the consequences of that use
C. Designed to enhance a person’s motivation to make changes regarding alcohol and other drug use and to recognize and cope with those life situations that may trigger or sustain alcohol and other drug use

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What is behavioral therapy?
  A. Uses family therapy principles to improve a person’s health-risk behaviors 	
  B. Offers strategies to help patients better understand the factors and situations that precede alcohol and other drug use as well as the consequences of that use 	
  C. Designed to enhance a person’s motivation to make changes regarding alcohol and other drug use and to recognize and cope with those life situations that may trigger or sustain alcohol and other drug use

anonymous · Answer

D. Attempts to identify the behaviors and situations in which alcohol and other drug use occurs and then to disrupt those behaviors by equipping patients with skills to resist alcohol and other drug use 	

I think it's C Am I right?

anonymous · Answer

@chunkymonkay

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@AakashSudhakar

aakashsudhakar · Answer

Yeah, you're right. The main difference with behavioral therapy is that it's geared as more of a post-modern health-related psychological method, such that there's more focus on social interaction and suggestive group methodology versus medicinal and drug use to cure mental ailments. The answer would be C.