You are a secondary school teacher developing a health promotion program. According to information you gathered from reading this text, your program should

a. emphasize prevention by promoting strategies for reducing risk behaviors.
b. focus primarily on strategies for dealing with health problems as they arise.
c. be cancelled and offered only to adult students.
d. focus only on boys because they have greater risks during adolescence.


Answer: a

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Identifying particular genes associated with mental disorders is the _________ approach to the biological paradigm

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