Identify the major forms of treatment at the community level
What will be an ideal response?
- community psychology treatments focus on enhancing quality of life for people and their relationships with different social structures
- self-help groups of people who share a common problem that the group tries to address - advantages include reaching large numbers of people, having people who can empathize with a certain problem, and facilitating therapist-client treatment - disadvantages include high dropout rate and risk of inadequate information
- aftercare services represent transitional help for people with severe mental disorders before they pursue independent living
- treatment at the community level intertwines with social change and public health policy for people with mental disorders, including rights for those hospitalized
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a. subordinate categories b. median categories c. basic-level categories d. superordinate categories
All of the following are examples of neonatal imitation except
a. tongue protrusion. c. mouth opening. b. tongue rolling. d. lip protrusion.
The theory that there is a stage of development beyond Piaget's formal operations, which is reached by older adolescents and adults is called
A) post-formal reasoning. B) metasensorimotor cognition. C) ultraconcrete thinking. D) superoperational thought.
Mr. Li is a 50-year-old college graduate from China who just immigrated to the United States and is learning English. Jet is 3 years of age and just immigrated to the United States from China and is also learning English
Jet will complete high school, but not college. What can we ascertain about the second-language acquisition of these two individuals? A) Jet will have greater English proficiency than Mr. Li only if he is raised in a non-Chinese-speaking household. B) By the time Jet is an adult, he and Mr. Li will have comparable English-speaking skills. C) Mr. Li will have greater English proficiency than Jet. D) Jet will have greater English proficiency than Mr. Li.