Question

A young woman believes that everything negative that happens to her is her own fault, that she ruins everything, and that she always will. The therapist diagnoses her as suffering from a learned helplessness –induced depression because she attributes negative events in her life to:

Answer 1

Answer:

Internal,global,stable factor

Explanation:

Learned helplessness is a behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their ability to control, it can increase a person's risk of depression and can have a profound impact on mental health and well being. For example an individual who perform poorly in an examination might quickly begin to feel that nothing he or she does will have or could had had any effect on their performance.

It is a stimuli that are painful or otherwise unpleasant and become unable or might be unwilling to avoid subsequent encounter with those stimuli;as in the case of the young woman who believes that everything negative that happens to her is her own fault, that she ruins everything