What are the negative stereotypes individuals who are handicapped or disabled face?

What will be an ideal response?


• Individuals who are labeled handicapped or disabled are faced with stereo-types from work associates and supervisors as well as from others in their environment.
• Negative stereotypes which can lead to discrimination in employment, housing, schooling, and social interactions. Employers may be reluctant to hire individuals with disabilities.

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When a therapist identifies a Black child functioning in some parental roles related to other siblings, the therapist should always intervene to adjust family roles to eliminate the child’s parenting functions.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Solution-focused brief therapy is grounded on the optimistic assumption that people are healthy and competent and have the ability to construct solutions that can enhance their lives

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The criticism that constructivist therapies reject objective reality and the scientific method would most likely be advanced by:

a. behavior therapists. c. integrative therapists. b. psychoanalytic therapists. d. humanistic therapists.

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All but one of these theorists is associated with the development of existential counseling. Who is not?

a. Soren Kierkegaard b. Martin Heidegger c. Victor Frankl d. Bernard Guerney, Jr.

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