Dr.Janus is seeing a client diagnosed with depression who experienced abuse as a child.Dr.Janus believes this abuse predisposed the client to overreact to life's difficult circumstances.As a result,her recent breakup resulted in a depressed state.Dr.Janus's perspective on his client's problems seems to be most consistent with the

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Dr. Janus's belief that the client's history of abuse predisposed them to overreact to difficult circumstances is most consistent with the diathesis-stress model. This model suggests that people may have a genetic or environmental predisposition (diathesis) to developing a certain disorder, but it takes a stressful event to trigger the disorder. In this case, the client's history of abuse may have predisposed them to depression, and the recent breakup was the triggering event.

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