Name three barriers to successful aging.

What will be an ideal response?


Three barriers to successful aging may be a misperception about an individual’s abilities, lack of resources for relationship building, or degrees of ageism that cause negative self-evaluation.

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Your client is a man whose wife was raped. He reports feeling overwhelmed and confused, wanting to be supportive but also feeling sexually distant from his wife. She is in treatment with another therapist. Your best treatment plan would be:

a. Call the wife's therapist to consult and coordinate treatment b. Bring the wife into counseling with you and her husband c. Refer your client to a group for men whose partners have been assaulted d. Normalize your client's feelings and continue individual counseling

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HIV can be spread by:

A. touching. B. hugging. C. breathing. D. all of the above. E. none of the above.

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Which of the following solutions do Diamond and Orszag propose to address the effect of earnings inequality on Social Security?

a. Raise the maximum taxable earnings base b. Reduce benefits for relatively high wage earners c. Create personal savings accounts to enable workers to have more control over their Social Security taxes d. All of the above e. A and B above

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Which of the following is a disadvantage of questionnaires as a survey research technique in

contrast to interviews?

a. There is no opportunity to probe for further information. b. They are more expensive. c. They enhance the problem of interviewer bias. d. They provide less accurate responses to questions of a personal or sensitive nature

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