How does the Americans with Disabilities Act identify individuals with disabilities?
What will be an ideal response?
• An individual with a disability is a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities or has a record of such impairment, or is regarded as having such impairment.
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a culturally skilled counselor, as defined by Arrendondo et al.?
A. Awareness of his or her own assumptions, values, and biases B. Understanding of the cultural competence of various local agencies C. Understanding of the culturally diverse clients' worldviews D. Awareness of culturally appropriate intervention strategies
What is meant by the term locus of evaluation?
a. The setting where psychological assessment is done. b. Methods used to assess clients’ level of functioning. c. A person’s point of view regarding who should do assessments. d. A person's habit of judging his or her actions and motivations, successes and failures by internal or external standards. e. The way a person handles problems.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.PsycINFO is probably the most widely used bibliographic search engine for English-language journals. 2.The dependent variable is the variable in an experiment that is manipulated by the researcher. 3.The mean, median, and mode are all measures of central tendency. 4.Statistical significance means that it is unlikely that the null hypothesis is true given the data that were collected. 5.ANOVAs are analyzed using the t test.
A case conceptualization will typically include:
a) A client's resenting problems but not life stressors b) Statements about how and why a client's problems developed c) A formal mental status evaluation d) Results of formal psychological testing