Identify and briefly discuss common problems of people with disabilities
What will be an ideal response?
1 . Poorly developed interpersonal skills are characteristic of people with disabilities.
2 . Individuals with disabilities are often resistive to counseling. One has to address the lack of success in schools and limited positive work experiences.
3 . Immediate pressing needs make it difficult for people with disabilities to focus on long-term projects.
4 . People with disabilities search for positive work models and job behavior.
5 . Individuals with a disability often feel powerless to change the direction of their lives.
6 . Expect people with disabilities to have a poor self-image, especially those who have been singled out as being different.
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The use of genograms is most closely associated with which of the following theories?
a. cognitive behavioral b. narrative c. psychodynamic d. family systems
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Social Darwinism was used to justify political control and racism over non-superior others. 2. Paranoia can be viewed as an adaptive response to the environment for individuals who experience oppression in the dominant culture. 3. Stereotype threat are subtle, everyday insults toward individuals belonging to a group of people of color about whom negative stereotypes are held. 4. The major therapeutic approaches discussed in the textbook are generally considered to be equally effective. 5. According to research, free will does not exist.
The Declare Model was conceived with the following goal in mind:
A. To teach future clinicians that all substance abusers are the same and can be treated as such. B. To demonstrate there is only one true method that has been proven to work for substance abusers. C. To develop a therapeutic method specifically for those who abuse alcohol and/or drugs. D. To prove that chemical dependency is purely a biological disease.
All of the following are true EXCEPT?
(a) Focusing, developed by Eugene Gendlin, helps clients to locate a “felt sense” in their body. (b) Specific strategies of interventions are an important part of person-centered therapy. (c) Parents seeking to follow Rogerian theory would avoid giving conditional messages to their children. (d) All emotion-focused therapies are experiential in nature.