Mrs K Calls Your Office and Speaks to You for About

Multiple Choice

Mrs. K calls your office and speaks to you for about half an hour about her interpersonal difficulties with her husband. You discuss your theoretical orientation and the interventions that you may teach her during subsequent sessions, as well as your firm belief with regard to the efficacy of therapy. Mrs. K sounds much calmer after your discussion and schedules a session for two weeks from today. Two weeks later, Mrs. K indicates in session that she has been feeling more hopeful in the past two weeks and her marital relationship has improved. This is likely an example of the:

A) motivation to change effect.
B) plaster effect.
C) placebo effect.
D) placation effect.