What does the right to treatment entail?

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AProviding any kind of treatment
BAll are correct
CProviding treatment if the client is deserving of it
DProviding treatment that has a reasonable chance to succeed
ENone are correct

✓ Correct answer: D. Providing treatment that has a reasonable chance to succeed According to a famous article by Morton Birnbaum, psychological patients have a constitutional right to receive such individual treatment as will give them a realistic opportunity to be cured or to improve his or her mental condition. Essentially, Birnbaum argued that psychologists have a duty to provide treatment that will help the patient.

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