The frequent and long-term exposure to the distress of others can contribute to a numbing or hardening of the worker's own feelings. This is best described as
a. compassion fatigue
b. learned helplessness
c. secondary trauma
d. residual depression
A
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A. lack of motivation. B. inadequate definitions. C. poor communication. D. lack of personality differences.
Rural areas are under tremendous stress because
A. Of very low literacy rates B. Of Insect crisis C. Of farm crisis D. Of the effects of enormous population growth
Social welfare policy is a(n) ________ process
A. Rational B. Irrational C. Personal D. Community
The Great Depression _____.
A. caused people to focus entirely on private issues related to poverty B. caused people to notice the institutional and structural breakdown of the economy C. precipitated a renewed interest in the psychoanalytic perspective D. set the direction for government intervention to remain primarily a concern of the states