Although Shannon Had a Relatively Trauma-Free Early Childhood, She Was

Although Shannon had a relatively trauma-free early childhood, she was highly emotionally sensitive to any form of stressor and began developing beliefs that the world was difficult and painful. This seems to have led her parents to shelter her more, and also to begin to treat her as though she were fragile and lacked competence. In time, she acquired these beliefs about herself as well. When faced with challenges in college, she quickly became depressed. The complex nature of these risks for depression highlights the principles of __________.

A) object-relations theory in conjunction with cognitive theory
B) a diathesis-stress model in conjunction with developmental trajectory perspectives
C) a multicausal model
D) psychoanalytic theory

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