Families in poverty may consider that the health care providers themselves are stressors. What might the family have assumed about the tendency of at least some health care providers?
A. Blaming the victims for their problems
B. Expecting the family to know all the resources in their community
C. Planning for the short term with no recognition of long-term needs
D. Waiting for the family to decide what should be done
ANS: A
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