Please summarize the conclusions of the chapter regarding maltreatment and the brain.
What will be an ideal response?
The authors conclude that there is compelling evidence that maltreatment alters genetic expression, autonomic and HPAaxis activity, and cortical structure and function. However, they also note that more research is needed to understand more specifically maltreatment’s effects on these processes. They call for research that clearly links certain types of maltreatment to neurobiological sequelae so that clinicians can make more informed decisions about treatment and better evaluate treatments.
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Discuss why the conflict perspective is used to help understand theories of moral development.
What will be an ideal response?
Of the following, which is not a major reason for community mental health centers' decrease in service to the chronically mentally ill?
A) ?Their inability to pay or get insurance coverage by gatekeeping HMOs B) ?De-emphasis of these low functioning individuals by the mental health clinics and a move toward more "normal" clients C) ?An inability to find qualified numbers of therapists to staff such clinics for such difficult clients D) ?More chronic mentally ill individuals are being returned to the community due to funding cutbacks at state hospitals and prisons.
The primary focus of assessment in client-centered case consultation is:
a. the consultee's feelings about a client b. the client c. the client and the consultee/client relationship d. the setting in which the problem occurs
Denise is a Euro-American social worker who is a former welfare client. A divorcee and mother of four, she succeeded in completing her degree and getting off the system in four years. She is now working in a welfare-to-work program and sets similar goals for her multicultural clients. Denise's attitude and actions indicate that she:
A. believes in her client's ability to achieve and live up to her expectations. B. is well intentioned and willing to challenge her clients. C. can serve as a model of what her clients can accomplish with their lives-if she could do it, so can her clients. D. is operating out of the majority value system and presuming that her clients have the same goals.