Describe the stigma often associated with substance-related disorders, and how this influences treatment-seeking behavior
What will be an ideal response?
- social discrimination with respect to employment, housing, and interpersonal rejection
- people may feel afraid of the person with the substance-related disorder
- rejection by family or friends
- lower wage from employers
- such stigma may adversely affect treatment seeking
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a. cannot offset the effects of poor prenatal nutrition. b. are unimportant to the healthy development of the fetus. c. can be dangerous to the fetus if taken in high doses. d. can be injected directly into a developing embryo
The basic building block of chromosomes is RNA, or Ribonucleic Acid
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Summarize the six characteristics of a high quality day-care center
What will be an ideal response?
Which is a stage of Sutherland and MacKintosh’s explanation for discrimination learning?
A. During the first stage, an individual’s attention to the relevant dimension strengthens. B. During the second stage, the organism discriminates to particular responses. C. During the second stage, the organism’s attention to relevant dimensions weakens. D. During the third stage, the organism attends to particular stimuli.