Which is an example of replacing common language with person-first language, the type of terminology preferred by social workers?
A. "person who uses a wheelchair" rather than "wheelchair-bound person"
B. "mentally ill person" rather than "schizophrenic person"
C. "challenged person" rather than "disabled person"
D. "person with a birth defect" rather than "crippled person"
Answer: A
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a. They are an analyst—someone who sits, detached and likely behind the client, who lies on the couch. b. They discourage a client to express his/her emotions and consider his/her authentic beliefs, values and intentions. c. They help a client develop the most important characteristic of psychological health which is self-acceptance. d. They view therapy as an attempt to force people into conformity with any ethical or other type of regulatory thought or behavior system.
Family education has been decoupled from family psychoeducation MOST likely because:
a) Family members have tended to view psychoeducation as family blaming b) Keeping them together proved unweildy c) They have completely different agendas d) Their formats were too different
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a. an increase in funding for services for the poor b. a shift in responsibility for welfare programs from the federal to the state level c. a move to decrease the welfare rolls through a variety of prevention efforts d. allowing the poor to gain personal assets while receiving public assistance
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